Andrew ([info]perspectivism) wrote,
@ 2006-09-13 10:19:00
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Where You Will Live the Longest
According to a Harvard study, the top seven counties for life expectancy are in Colorado. Is there something magic in the air there? TIME's correspondent from top-ranking Clear Creek County investigates:

It hardly seems coincidental that all seven — Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit — lie either on or near the Continental Divide and are spectacularly beautiful.
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[info]amoken
2006-09-13 05:25 pm UTC (link)
Most of the people I know who have chosen to live there tend to be more active.

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[info]troyworks
2006-09-14 07:08 am UTC (link)
conversely people in Denver seem to have lots of brain tumors (from a sampling of immediate friends/family)..may be coindicence or water table issues from Rocky Mountain Flats.

Also longevity might be lack of stress, and good social networks un in dem dar hills.

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[info]radtea
2006-09-15 02:45 am UTC (link)
conversely people in Denver seem to have lots of brain tumors (from a sampling of immediate friends/family)..may be coindicence or water table issues from Rocky Mountain Flats.

Don't forget the higher cosmic-ray flux from the altitude. 1.6 km of atmosphere is like 1.6 m of water (about 5 feet) which is a pretty effective absorber that those of us living close to sea-level are getting and folks living in Denver are not, although I don't believe there's any statistically significant differnce in cancer rate with altituded (which is what you'd expect given how hard it is for humans to get cancer compared to other mammals--if we hadn't eliminated almost every other form of death we'd never even be aware of it.)




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[info]troyworks
2006-09-15 03:00 am UTC (link)
you'd think that pilots and frequent air travelers would have higher incidences of tumors given the amount of time they spend in the air.

So far as I know that hasn't quite been fully substantiated yet.

Ingestion of radiation is prolonged exposure versus high altitude which may be sheilded by housing/clouds/orientation of the earth.

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[info]faustin
2006-09-16 03:40 pm UTC (link)
Hey, just got back to my proxy for civilization, where I seem to be condemned to hibernate for the winter, and was wanting to write you and ask for updates. It would be nice if you'd post to LJ.

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[info]perspectivism
2006-09-20 07:47 am UTC (link)

proxy for civilization...condemned, heh

I don't life-LJ but would enjoy some Skype/chat. E-mail me your screennames!

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[info]pjammer
2006-09-18 01:40 am UTC (link)
Oh, just FYI (per our conversation last night).

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/spinach.asp

Yikes!

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