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For both men and women in the U.S., they could expect to live up to 78 years of age. A hundred years ago, the life expectancy was 48 years! This is an improved difference but the U.S. is not the number 1 country for life expectancy. It is actually number 40 in the world.
 * 1st slide:** This project is about life expectancy. This powerpoint was created by Iliana, Daniel, and Balvino
 * 2nd slide:** Life expectancy means the amount of years you are predicted/expected to live. Here is an example of a typical american women from 9 months to around 60 years old. That means her life espectancy was probably around 60 years old. In fact american women are expected to live up to 79 years which is pretty close to 60 years.
 * 3rd slide:** There are factors that impact life expectancy and some are negative while others are positive. Some positive factors are improvement in public health and medicine. Some negative factors might be homocides, suicides, strokes, cancer, diabetes and AIDS or HIV. Nutrition is a major factor that impacts life expectancy everywhere. Yogurt is a food that has been around for centuries and has also been proved to improve a person's health. For example in the early 1500's King Francois was prescribed a diet of yogurt. The diet actually saved the French monarch's life.
 * 4th slide:** Women have always had longer life expectancy rates than men; soemtimes up to a 10 year margin! The average life expectancy at birth for women in the U.S. is 79 years and 72 years for men. Although women can expect to live longer than men, the gap is closing. Death rates have begun to converge in the past 20 years. Some researchers attribute the convergence to women taking on the behaviors and stresses formerly considered the domain of males -- smoking, drinking, and working outside the home.
 * 5th slide:** At the top of the list for best life expectancy is the country of Andorra: a baby born there can expect to live 83 and a half years. The top 5 countries with the lowest life expectancy rates are Lesotho; 39.9 years, Zimbawe; 39.5 years, Zambia; 38.4 years, Angola; 37.6, ,Swaziland; 32.2 years. The lowest 36 countries are all in Africa.
 * 6th slide:** Since the majority of the kids in our school are hispanic, we decided to dig deeper in and find out what hispanic-american's life expectancy was. We found out that a leading theory is that Hispanics who manage to immigrate to the U.S. are among the healthiest from their countries. A Hispanic born in 2006 could expect to live about 80 years and seven months, the government estimates. Life expectancy for a white is about 78, and for a black, just shy of 73 years. That means that hispanic-americans have the longest life expectany rates compared to whites and blacks.
 * 7th slide:** During our research we found good news and bad news. The bad news was that as much as the U.S. has access to up-to-date medicines and foods; it is not the healthiest country. This concerns me because that means we are not taking the advantage that we have seriously. It's disappointing to know that we are so developed yet so unhealthy. On the other hand, hispanics seem to live longer in America than what they would normally live in their own country. Actually this would only be considered good news to those who are hispanic-american.