Cuestión de peso

Porcentaje de obesidad en mujeres por países en 2014, según un código de colores. Fuente:  NCD-RisC, citado en el artículo.

Malén Ruiz de Elvira, La población mundial ha engordado un kilo y medio cada década en los últimos 40 años - La obesidad se ha triplicado en los hombres y duplicado en las mujeres desde 1975, una tendencia que se da también en España. Público, 26 de abril de 2016.

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El precio de las universidades (El País, 15/04/2016)

Geography Matters

Life expectancy of 40-year-olds with household incomes below $28,000,
adjusted for race* * Map shows what life expectancy would be if every place had the same share of Hispanics and Asians (who tend to live longer than whites) and blacks (who tend to live shorter lives than whites), and the same share of men and women. 

Life expectancies are calculated assuming the chance of dying at a given age does not change, a calculation known as period life expectancy. Data covers 2001 to 2014, and excludes people with no earnings at age 40.

Source: “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014”, The Journal of the American Medical Association;healthinequality.org

The Rich Live Longer Everywhere.For the Poor, Geography Matters.

By NEIL IRWIN and QUOCTRUNG BUINew York Times, APRIL 11, 2016

For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death.

The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala. — live nearly as long as their middle-class neighbors or have seen rising life expectancy in the 21st century. But in some other parts of the country, adults with the lowest incomes die on average as young as people in much poorer nations like Rwanda, and their life spans are getting shorter.

In those differences, documented in sweeping new research, lies an optimistic message: The right mix of steps to improve habits and public health could help people live longer, regardless of how much money they make.

One conclusion from this work, published on Monday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, is that the gap in life spans between rich and poor widened from 2001 to 2014. The top 1 percent in income among American men live 15 years longer than the poorest 1 percent; for women, the gap is 10 years. These rich Americans have gained three years of longevity just in this century. They live longer almost without regard to where they live. Poor Americans had very little gain as a whole, with big differences among different places.

Where the Poor Live the Longest

Where the Poor Live the Shortest

MEN

New York City	79.5
San Jose, Calif.	79.5
Santa Barbara	79.4
Santa Rosa	79.0
Los Angeles	79.0
San Francisco	78.8
San Diego	78.8
Miami	78.3
Newark	78.2
Boston	78.1

WOMEN

Miami	84.2
New York City	84.0
Santa Barbara	84.0
San Jose, Calif.	83.7
San Diego	83.4
Port St. Lucie, Fla.	83.3
Newark	83.2
Los Angeles	83.2
Portland, Me.	83.1
Providence, R.I.	83.1

MEN

Gary, Ind.	74.2
Indianapolis	74.6
Detroit	74.8
Louisville, Ky.	74.9
Tulsa, Okla.	74.9
Toledo, Ohio	74.9
Oklahoma City	75.0
Dayton, Ohio	75.1
Knoxville, Tenn.	75.1
Las Vegas	75.1

WOMEN

Las Vegas	80.0
Oklahoma City	80.2
Tulsa, Okla.	80.3
Honolulu	80.3
Detroit	80.5
Cincinnati	80.5
Indianapolis	80.6
Des Moines	80.6
Gary, Ind.	80.7
Little Rock, Ark.	80.7

Among the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S.