Average Life Expectancy

In "the Average Life Expectancy Could Soon Reach Above 90 Years Old", by Maria Chang, she discusses how America is falling behind other countries on average life expectancy, despite its wealth. It is shown that countries with more money tend to have longer human life expectancies, because of their ability to afford to maintain a healthy environment. So why is the United States, the ninth richest country falling short in these ranks? "Researchers note that among rich countries, the U.S. has the highest maternal and child death rates, homicide rates and is the only high-income country without comprehensive health care". Since our country has many more common causes of death than other high-income countries such as Monaco or Andorra, many people don't live into old age. …show more content…
But besides these points, how else is our average lowering. We can look at our youth's health in America and notice many problems. In "Sitting to Much Ages You By 8 Years", by Alice Park she writes, " Sitting too much during the day has been linked to a host of diseases, from obesity to heart problems and diabetes, as well as early death". The average middle or high school student has seven classes a day averaging from 45 minutes to an hour, with short breaks in between. That's about 7 hours of learning and roughly, 6 hours and 38 minutes of sitting a day. Although many will use after school sports as a counteract for them being active enough, this amount of sitting is really taking a toll on their