“In the US both sexes have a lower life expectancy than their peers in other rich countries, a gulf that has widened since the 1980s. Furthermore, as Americans live longer, they are living longer with illness and disease; due to our top US diseases followed by a high body mass index (a measure of obesity), & lack of exercise causing our health disaster in the USA.Transforming America’s health will take much more than Obama care. ”

Dr. Christopher Murray MD, researcher with The Washington University-his main paper

Journal of the American Medical Association