Peak health

An odd little news item on local radio this morning about the state of public health locally – we are among the better areas apparently, according to an organisation whose name I did not catch.

What was startling about it though was the claim that our men live to be 88-point-something, the women 82-point-something.

Perhaps someone just made a mistake somewhere, misread a figure, & really, like everywhere else, women outnumber men in the oldest age groups.

But this is one of those statistics I prefer not to check up on – I just like the idea that we are very unusual indeed. That there really is something in them thar hills.

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