Make America Healthy Again – Falling Life Expectancy Is Alarming

Make America Healthy Again – Falling Life Expectancy Is Alarming

Share to Linkedin TOPSHOT - An overweight woman walks at the 61st Montgomery County Agricultural Fair on August 19, ... [+] 2009 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. - At USD 150 billion, the US medical system spends around twice as much treating preventable health conditions caused by obesity than it does on cancer, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. Two-thirds of US adults and one in five children are overweight or obese, putting them at greater risk of chronic illness like heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes, according to reports released recently at the "Weight of the Nation" conference. AFP PHOTO / Tim Sloan (Photo by Tim SLOAN / AFP) (Photo by TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images) In France, the latest production of the 'Three Musketeers' is hitting cinemas and it is feted for being the most expensive French film ever made. My attention however is focused on another of Alexandre Dumas' works, 'The Count of Monte Cristo', where the main character Edmond Dantes, deviously wronged as a young man, eventually escapes prison on Chateau d'If, builds a fortune and then exacts revenge on his rivals. The book was set around the time of Napoleon's escape from Elba, but this time I associate