The proof of Anderson County’s live-hard, die-young culture is in the bread pudding — and the all-you-can-eat fried catfish, the drive-through tobacco barns and the dozens of doughnut shops that dot this East Texas county of about 57,000.
Residents of East Texas, and particularly minorities, often make lifestyle choices, like smoking and eating high-fat diets, that affect their life expectancy. Heavy eating and chain smoking are prevalent in East Texas….
In a community where heavy eating and chain smoking are prevalent, where poverty, hardheadedness and even suspicion hinder access to basic health care, residents die at an average age of 73 — seven years earlier than the healthiest Texans…
Indeed, life expectancy lags across most of East Texas, which lives up to the grim medical nickname the Stroke Belt.
Full article on decreased life expectancy in East Texas.
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