At 10:32 AM 6/17/99 -0700, Robin Hanson wrote:
>The nation's centenarian population is quickly approaching
>70,000, up from some 28,000 in 1990, according to a Census Bureau
>report released yesterday. Four-fifths of the members of the
>venerable 100+ group are female, and largely concentrated in the
>Midwest's "longevity belt" -- Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska,
>Kansas and Minnesota. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/17
This is interesting, in that 1) these areas have an unusually homogenous population for the U.S., and 2) the average diet in this region is definitely not conducive to longevity per current research.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com