Re: Cool climate and longevity [Was: Hardiness]

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From: Charles Hawtrey
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:11

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ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote:

>You know, I'm starting to wonder if cooler is healthier.  What brought 
>this to mind is that the last of the Australian First World War 
>veterans have been dying off over the past few years, and a surprising 
>number of them seem to have lived in Tasmania.  Given the small 
>population of that State I can only assume they sent off a very high 
>proportion of volunteers or the ones that did go went on to live a 
>very healthy life in our coldest State.

See
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

It's hard to see any obvious relation to cold or warm climates.  In
the top 10 we have warm to hot climates (Macau, Singapore, Hong Kong)
and cooler ones.  A quick glance suggests that a long life expectancy
is more strongly related to wealth and, perhaps, an ethnically
homogeneous population (such as Japan or Iceland).

-- 
Mitt huvud trillar av och det �r fullt av godis.

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