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That stat appears to be grossly wrong (too high). According to NationMaster.com, the weighted worldwide average per capita murder rate is .1 per 1,000 people (or, one person in 10,000). That is 20 times less than the statistic you gave.
That's per year. For a normal lifetime of a typical murder victim, you'd have to multiply it by about 30 or 40, because every year, you have the accumulated exposures. In your lifetime, you'd have 30 or 40 chances in 10,000 of being one of those annual victims. In other words, if you lived to be 10,000, eventually the odds would catch up with you and somebody would knock you off.
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Originally Posted by stevenvillatoro
I'm sure when I moved from AZ to CA that I gained at least 10 years of life.
Yeah, because Arizona's new governor has appointed Death Panels.
It's also a life expectancy factor that the USA has a higher Obesity rate than Mexico. And the USA obesity rate would be higher still, if it weren't for all those comparatively slim Mexicans lowering the average. And, Mexican soft drinks contain cane sugar, not HFCS. The consumption of more healthful Cokes in Mexico probably more than offsets the risk of being murdered. And capsaicin in hot chilis is widely held to reduce both cancer and heart attacks. http://www.naturalhealthweb.com/articles/SixWise16.html
What's weird is that Mexico's avg life expectancy is higher than the average life expectancy for people of Mexican descent in the US.
Not weird at all if you consider the daily diet of each one. And affordable access to health care in Mexico, which is now phasing in universal health care, which is already in place for low-income Mexicans. Whereas about half of all Americans of Mexican ancestry probably have no health insurance at all.
Not weird at all if you consider the daily diet of each one. And affordable access to health care in Mexico, which is now phasing in universal health care, which is already in place for low-income Mexicans. Whereas about half of all Americans of Mexican ancestry probably have no health insurance at all.
I'm also not surprised. I don't think it's lack of health care in either country because they get free health care in the USA or Medicaid but they eat better in Mexico and get some exercise in Mexico. The USA has too much of a good thing, the easy life, too many food stamps.
I'm also not surprised. I don't think it's lack of health care in either country because they get free health care in the USA or Medicaid but they eat better in Mexico and get some exercise in Mexico. The USA has too much of a good thing, the easy life, too many food stamps.
Fast food joints are springing up all over in Mexico and big chain grocers are well stocked with sweets and processed foods. The junk food diet is coming to Mexico and I think that is going to be a serious drag on Mexican health in the future.
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