Move to the U.S. Die Younger.
Did you know that moving to the U.S. may kill you younger? It's the truth. The New York Times reports today that immigrating to this country makes people die earlier than they would if they had remained in their own country. "The longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the(ir) parents," according to Sabrina Tavernise. Sadly, once they're in this country, many immigrants lose their healthy diets, exchanging their traditional meals of corn and peppers and beans for Big Macs and KFC. Even worse, they take up smoking (though smoking is popular in many European countries, too). “There’s something about life in the United States that is not conducive to good health across generations,” Robert A. Hummer, a social demographer at the University of Texas at Austin, told Tavernise. Foreign...