The Strawberry Capital of the World is the early death capital of the U.S.: lessons from a landmark dataset [washingtonpost.com]

Alicia Doktor 9/17/184:00 AM

In 1949, the Oklahoma legislature proclaimed Stilwell, in the Ozark foothills near the Arkansas border, the Strawberry Capital of the World.

This week, Stilwell earned a more discouraging distinction: It has the lowest life expectancy in the country — just 56.3 years, according to the most detailed local health data ever released by the National Center for Health Statistics.

That means folks there are expected to die 22.5 years — an entire generation — earlier than the comparable national average of 78.8 years.

[For more on this story by Andrew Van Dam, go to https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.ee002164be45]

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