Commonalities In America

America ranks twenty-sixth in life expectancy. In 1970 Americans usually lived longer than people in other countries, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. It’s not that the Americans aren't living as long they're actually living longer than in 1970, but the rate is growing slower than the rate of other countries. The United States spends a lot of money on heath care, but yet our life expectancy isn’t as high as other countries. America is fantastic at buying super nice medical technology but not so good at using the nice machines to actually extend someones life. One of the things that the American health care system is so good at is spending money, they spend more money than any other country in the world. They spend all of there …show more content…
Obesity in the entire world has doubled since 1980, but more than 600 million adults in America are obese almost two billion are overweight, and forty-two million children under the age of five were overweight or obese. It used to mean when you were fat that you were rich and had the money to able to afford all of this lavish food, but now the terms have flipped. If you’re fat you usually seem to not have the money to be able to afford healthy good and if you're rich you're able to buy all of the organic food thats great for you. In a study done by the CDC, it showed that Mississippi, the poorest state in America, has the highest obesity rate. It’s shown that the states in the South that in some cases are the poorest of the states in America have the highest obesity rates of all of the other states. It doesn’t help much either that there’s a McDonalds on practically every corner in American towns. But its not just the poor who are the ones who are obese. Around one-third of Americans that are obese come from all income levels. Walter Willet said “The bottom line: cheap, unhealthy goods mixed with a sedentary lifestyle has made obesity the new normal in America. And that makes it even harder to change” (Berl, 2012). In 1990 there wasn’t one U.S. state that’s obesity rate was greater than fourteen percent. Ten years later twenty-three states had an obesity rate that was between twenty and twenty-four percent. The most recent study in 2010 showed that thirty-six states had an obesity rate of more than twenty-fiver percent, and twelve of them had a rate beyond thirty percent. Since the obesity rate is higher in the South and Southeast states, you can now see that the life expectancy is decreasing for the first time in many parts of these states. It’s not only where someone lives that causes them to be obese. Certain populations that reside in these parts also makes a difference. Comfort food is