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Originally Posted by tippyclubb
From what I have been reading and hearing on the news the reduction is largely due to health officials taking away unhealthy choices by banning trans fats, smoking bans, and heavy taxation on cigarettes. Next year they may ban the size of sugary soda drinks one can purchase, for example no more Big Gulps.
Want to Live Longer? Move to NYC |
From the year 2000 till 2010 is certainly not enough time for a study with certifiable results for the causes noted below in bold taken from the study in the link above.
However, gains made after 2000 reflect true improvements in individual health. Mirroring the national average, some 87 percent of deaths in the Big Apple result from noncommunicable diseases — preventable ailments such as heart disease and lung cancer — but the number of yearly deaths from those causes is steadily falling.
The IHME researchers determined that more than 60 percent of the increase in New Yorkers' life expectancy since 2000 can be attributed to reductions in heart disease, cancer, diabetes and stroke.
This study below attributes the increase to the large influx of immigrants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/ny...inds.html?_r=0
From the link above:
A stunning increase in the life expectancy of New Yorkers over the past 20 years, compared with the rest of the country, has been driven by sharp declines in deaths from AIDS, homicide, smoking-related illnesses
and, in a surprising twist, an increase in the numbers of immigrants, a new study has found.
In 2010, the most recent year for which there is complete data, life expectancy in New York City for women was 83 and for men it was 78.