You hear every day about the increasing obesity rate in US and its accompanying metabolic syndromes (from heart disease to diabetes), which has turned into the first cause of death in the country. Heart disease is the first cause of death amongst Americans, while diabetes, the fourth (the second cause is smoking and the third non-smoking related cancers). But violent death still takes an important toll.
In 2005, 15,962 Americans in 16 states experienced a violent death, as shown by data gat...
Posted originally: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:58:00 GMT
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