Has the obesity epidemic shortened expected life span in the U.S. yet? When you see all sorts of fats dying at the grand old age of like 45 or gasp even 50 I began to wonder if the country's life expectancy has gone down. I googled it and got this graph. Japan's year over year expectancy growth is generally greater than ours with exception of 2009-2011 where it went down slightly 2 consecutive years before going back up again. I know modern medicine has been keeping these hams alive a lot longer than they deserve but we still see plenty of them dying well before 78 years old. Perhaps the horrible obesity trend hasn't been around long enough to impact the life expectancy but with the majority of the population overweight or obese we should start to see that number go down soon. Granted it's not going to affect my life expectancy because I actually give a damn about my body and health but it still troubles me. I know hams are already raising health costs but have they begun to kill the country as a whole yet?