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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08083/866747-4...
(PBS.org TV schedules: http://www.pbs.org Show title: Unnatural Causes)

Eat right, exercise, don't smoke, inherit good genes and, conventional wisdom dictates, you gain the best measure of protection against illness.

Not so fast, argues a new PBS series.

"Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?," airing on four consecutive Thursdays beginning this week, explores the idea that work, race, economic status and neighborhood conditions may affect a person's health as much or more than habits or genetics.

Looking at communities in several states including Pennsylvania, the series examines why America ranks as the world's wealthiest nation and yet is 30th in life expectancy and 31st in infant mortality.

Among the intriguing questions "Unnatural Causes" probes: Why do poor Mexican immigrants see their health erode the longer they stay in America? Why do poor smokers develop lung cancer more often than rich smokers? Why are some black and American Indian populations less likely to reach 65 than people from Bangladesh or Ghana?

Improved housing, higher wages and more control on the job foster health as much as quitting smoking or eating well, according to a Harvard University epidemiologist quoted in the series. In other words, social policy may be crucial to a citizenry's physical well-being.

The first episode, airing 10 p.m. Thursday on WQED and titled "In Sickness and in Wealth," looks at the link between health and wealth through the lives of Louisville, Ky., residents, including a CEO, a lab supervisor, a janitor and a welfare mother.

PBS Description: Episode title: In Sickness And In Wealth

Episode description: This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. Set mostly in Louisville, Kentucky, it's a detective story out to solve the mystery of what's stalking and killing so many Americans before their time. The program uncovers the connections between healthy bodies and healthy bank accounts - and why residents of so many other nations, including many poorer countries, live longer and healthier lives. Solutions, evidence suggests, may lie not in more pills but in more equality.

Episode guide: The connections between healthy bodies and healthy bank accounts are uncovered.

I hope he can also visit the disidents and opositors in the island as a real honest mission.

Marie in Miami Fl wrote:

I hope he can also visit the disidents and opositors in the island as a real honest mission.

Nonsense, Marie. There are no "disidents" or "opositors" in Cuba.

WE JUST DONT CARE wrote:

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ONCE AGAIN YOU LIE PIG!I EVEN VISITED SOME OF THEM.THEY ALL BELIEVE IN A PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY.WE WILL MAKE IT PIG!.YOU CAN BET YOUR MISERABLE AND DISGUTING LIFE THAT WE WIL!VIVA CUBA LIBRE!

You're just trying to pull my leg again, aren't you? If you really visited some of the "disidents" and "opositors", you should be able to prove it by providing their names and the places you've met them.
I'm waiting...

Observandum wrote:

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Nonsense, Marie. There are no "disidents" or "opositors" in Cuba.

BTW PIG,I KNOW YOU ARE TRYING TO BE FUNNY ABOUT USING THE MISWPELLED WORDS "disidents" or "opositors",THE ONES I VISITED WERE 'DISSIDENTS AND OPPOSITORS' TO THE CASTRO'S DICTATORSHIP!NICE TRY PIG!

WE JUST DONT CARE wrote:

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NO PROBLEM PIG!'EDUARDO' AND 'CONCHITA' ARE JUST A FEW OF THEM!ABOUT THEIR REAL NAMES AND THE PLACES WHERE WE MET!WELL PIG...THAT IS FOR ME TO KNOWN AND FOR A CHEAP 'MATA HARI' LIKE YOU TO FIND OUT! WISH YOU LUCK PIG!THE DAYS OF THE DICTATORSHIP ARE NUMBERED!

Why don't you want to provide their real names? Are you chicken?

Jorge Luis Perez (Antunez)...Marta Beatriz Roque... look into El Camajan.com ---The real cuba.babalu--- for dissidents and oppositors.

Observandum wrote:

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Why don't you want to provide their real names? Are you chicken?

Maybe I will.As we all know you are cheap Mata Hari!You are such a bad snitcher,that I even gave you the date and time of my arrival to Havana and nothing happened to me!They even wellcome me with a very respectful "Bienvenido Senor"!

Observandum wrote:

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You're just trying to pull my leg again, aren't you? If you really visited some of the "disidents" and "opositors", you should be able to prove it by providing their names and the places you've met them.
I'm waiting...

Don't you worry my dear observadung, our labors will bear fruit, and.....when the time is right.... then not only you but everyone may learn some of those names. In the meantime, they are classified!

LIGER OMNI POWER wrote:

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Don't you worry my dear observadung, our labors will bear fruit, and.....when the time is right.... then not only you but everyone may learn some of those names. In the meantime, they are classified!

Cuando Cuba sea Libre vamos a tirar a todas estas Rats por el muro del Malecon para que se las coman los tiburones de experimento de Fidel, solo comen mierda...!!Ha Ha

Marie in Miami Fl wrote:

<quoted text>Cuando Cuba sea Libre vamos a tirar a todas estas Rats por el muro del Malecon para que se las coman los tiburones de experimento de Fidel, solo comen mierda...!!Ha Ha

¡el tsk tsk tsk, que era travieso!

:-)

Senator Mc Cain,
will lower the tax burden on working Americans, supporting the men and women fighting the war on terror, making good on the nation's financial commitments at home, including to senior citizens, and paying down the national debt.

Vote Mc Cain.

Marie in Miami Fl wrote:

<quoted text>Cuando Cuba sea Libre vamos a tirar a todas estas Rats por el muro del Malecon para que se las coman los tiburones de experimento de Fidel, solo comen mierda...!!Ha Ha

exactly!