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STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Morality Rates are Rising with Younger People

A major new mortality study is raising alarms about the declining mental and physical health of younger Americans. Researchers tracking 45 years of U.S. death data found that Americans born after 1970 are already dying at higher rates from heart disease, cancer, overdoses, suicide, homicide, and traffic accidents than earlier generations did at the same […] The post Morality Rates are Rising with Younger People appeared first on StoneZone .

A major new mortality study is raising alarms about the declining mental and physical health of younger Americans. Researchers tracking 45 years of U.S. death data found that Americans born after 1970 are already dying at higher rates from heart disease, cancer, overdoses, suicide, homicide, and traffic accidents than earlier generations did at the same ages. For most of the 20th century, each American generation could expect to live longer than the last. That progress began to break down with Americans born in the 1950s and has worsened with each generation since. The study found two overlapping crises. First, millennials and Gen Xers are entering middle age with worse health outcomes than their parents and grandparents. Second, around…Open

NPR (Rob Stein) - U.S. life expectancy hits a new high, as deaths from overdoses and COVID fall

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.