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We may pay the most in taxes and insurance, but at least we live the longest.
Women in NJ live nearly 1 year longer than the national average.
Men in NJ live nearly 2 years longer than the national average.
Here is a couple of articles:
Thanks doc, i have 20 years to go unless i move. I didn't know woman live 5 years longer. Maybe it's time for me to get a sex change than i can annoy my wife for 5 years longer.
In NJ we are better educated, have better diets and do more exercising than the slobs in the Midwest and South. You ever see the tourists in Times Square? Their jumbo jets from Omaha must hold only about a dozen of them.
While it sometimes seems that we have a lot of obese people in NJ, the actual percentage of morbidly obese people in our state is FAR lower than what you would find in the Deep South and in the Midwest. And, since obesity is probably the biggest avoidable factor relating to things like Type II Diabetes, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Sleep Apnea, and a host of other medical conditions, it just stands to reason that an area with fewer morbidly obese people will reflect more favorable longevity statistics.
In NJ we are better educated, have better diets and do more exercising than the slobs in the Midwest and South. You ever see the tourists in Times Square? Their jumbo jets from Omaha must hold only about a dozen of them.
LOL , never get onto an Elevator with a group of southern tourists....the reason for that is they tax foods down there at a higher rate , forcing most of the population to eat the crap and subsidized foods.
We are very lucky that there is no sales tax on supermarket food in NJ, with the exception of "take out" meals. So, perhaps we are not the most heavily taxed people in the nation if folks in those red states have to pay sales tax on everything that they eat.
But...as to eating "crap"...I thought that this was part of the Southern culture. You know--coat everything with bread crumbs and then deep fat fry it, and cook your vegetables with fat back in order to take something that was originally a healthy meal, and turning it into an obesity-producing meal high in saturated fat.
Additionally, there are multiple studies indicating that the incidence of smoking decreases as the level of education increases. Since NJ tends to have a more highly-educated population, we probably have a lower percentage of smokers in our state. That factor, coupled with fewer morbidly obese people would have a major impact on health statistics.
I thought it would easily be Hawaii - wouldn't have guessed NJ was WAY up there (but I've never been there). I might have guessed NJ to be too polluted for life expectancy to be way up there.
1 Hawaii 81.5
2 Minnesota 80.9
3 California 80.4
4 New York 80.4
5 Connecticut 80.2
6 Massachusetts 80.1
7 North Dakota 80.1
8 Utah 80.1
9 Colorado 79.9
10 Arizona 79.9
11 South Dakota 79.9
12 New Hampshire 79.7
13 Vermont 79.7
14 Florida 79.7
15 Iowa 79.7
16 New Jersey 79.7
17 Washington 79.7
18 Wisconsin 79.3
19 Rhode Island 79.3
20 Idaho 79.2
21 Nebraska 79.2
22 Oregon 79.0
23 Illinois 78.8
24 Maine 78.7
25 Virginia 78.5
26 Kansas 78.4
27 Montana 78.4
28 Delaware 78.3
29 Alaska 78.3
30 Texas 78.3
31 New Mexico 78.2
32 Pennsylvania 78.2
33 Maryland 78.1
34 Michigan 77.9
35 Indiana 77.7
36 Wyoming 77.6
37 Nevada 77.6
38 Ohio 77.5
39 Missouri 77.4
40 North Carolina 77.2
41 Georgia 77.1
42 South Carolina 76.6
43 Tennessee 76.2
44 Kentucky 76.2
45 Arkansas 76.1
46 District of Columbia 75.6
47 Oklahoma 75.6
48 Louisiana 75.4
49 Alabama 75.2
50 West Virginia 75.2
51 Mississippi 74.8
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