What do you think Mexicans living very well On the Border, Long Lives Despite Dismal Statistics?
EDINBURG — Many of the longest lives in Texas are lived in an unlikely place: along the state's impoverished border with Mexico. Despite conditions that often have the opposite consequences — desperately low incomes, a widespread lack of health insurance and poor rates of high school graduation — the predominantly Hispanic residents of Hidalgo County live on average to be 80, two years longer than the United States or Texas averages. Residents of other Texas border counties live similarly long lives, according to a preliminary county-by-county analysis by the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
This would appear to go against common thinking, when you consider some of the border region's other superlatives: sky-high rates of obesity, diabetes and kidney disease. The hypotheses to explain this so-called Hispanic paradox are numerous, including theories about cultural differences in the diet, religious faith and family values of first-generation South Texans and suggestions that natural selection is at play because of immigration patterns.
And even if the life span numbers are spot-on — which some researchers argue is improbable, considering how transient many South Texas immigrants are, and how dire conditions are in the border's colonias — the region's health care providers argue that a long life should not be mistaken for a healthy life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/us/16ttexpectancy.html?src=twrhp
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They cross over every month to get there SS check . From the post office.
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