Older Americans Less Healthy Than Their British Counterparts

Americans 55 and over are much sicker  than their British counterparts even though the United States spends more than twice as much per person on health care as Britain, researchers said Tuesday.    

Writingin The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers fromUniversity College, London, also seemed to confirm stereotypes tossedacross the Atlantic, concluding that Americans are prone to obesity while Britons drink too much.

Read more in the New York Times.

Ed:  The US has the second highest obesity rate in the world–after Malta.  66% of the US population is overweight; 31% of Americans are considered to be obese.  That’s compared with 23% in 1993.