life-expectancy
Why Are White High School Dropouts Dying Younger?
Hamilton Nolan · 09/21/12 12:35PMU.S. Women's Life Expectancy Declining
Lauri Apple · 06/16/11 02:17AMWomen "in large swaths of the U.S." aren't living as long as they were just a generation ago, according to experts who study these things. Maybe the women in these "large swaths" should move to other swaths where women live longer. (Quitting smoking and avoiding obesity are also recommended strategies.) [Image NatalieMaynor/via Flickr.]
Hideously Unhealthy Americans Living Longer Than Ever
Maureen O'Connor · 03/16/11 02:51PMFat, Smoking Americans Will Die Whenever They Want
Hamilton Nolan · 01/25/11 03:45PMSelfish Murder Victims Wrecking the Life Expectancy Curve
Hamilton Nolan · 09/03/10 11:32AMFive Deaths That Prove You Should Eat Fast Food
Ryan Tate · 06/26/08 06:50AMNeatly encapsulating the prevailing foodie conventional wisdom, science-fearing New York Times contributor Michael Pollan has famously advised America to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." He also believes we should eat like our ignorant, backward ancestors ("Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food") instead of like modern human beings. But as regular Gawker readers know, heavily-processed, contemporary American fast food has preserved an inordinate number of its inventors and purveyors well past any reasonable life expectancy. This morning's Times brings word of the death of hamburger chain founder Wilber Hardee at the ripe old age of 89. Granted, he was felled by a heart attack. But he joins no fewer than four other fast food pioneers who have kicked the bucket over the past six months at extraordinarily advanced ages:
Nothing But Fast Food For The Antispurlock
Ryan Tate · 04/17/08 05:35AMJust in time for Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock's new movie, a Wall Street analyst is getting closer to the fast-food companies he tracks by eating only "quick-service" food for all of April. It's halfway through the month; how's he doing? The answer won't be surprising to those who remember how long the founders of Popeyes, Carl's Jr. and Fatburger lived:
Live Fast, Die Old
Hamilton Nolan · 03/24/08 10:38AMIn January, Carl Karcher, the founder of the fast food chain Carl's Jr., died at the age of 90. In February, Lovie Yancey, the founder of Fatburger, died at the age of 96. And just yesterday, Al Copeland, the founder of Popeyes Fried Chicken, died at the age of 64. Which is not bad for a man with a lifetime diet of fried chicken! Does this mean that 2008 is a deadly year for our beloved fast food entrepreneurs? No, it means that fast food will keep you alive well past the expected time of your demise. Honor their memories with greasy meat. [Tabloid Baby]