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Why Americans are living longer again

America is a uniquely sick, unhealthy country — just ask Americans. We’re addicted to ultraprocessed food and succumb to deaths of despair. The current US health secretary, who insists we’ve been raising the “sickest generation” ever, has built an entire political movement around the idea that there is something uniquely unwell about America as a country. So it might surprise you to learn that the US actually just set a new record low in its death rate, the average American’s odds of dying in a given year. According to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CD...