New Yorkers Live Longer. What About Visitors?

I'm am in NYC! This article was in the airplane magazine as I flew. Hoping I come back a few pounds lighter :) http://www.spiritmag.com/click_this/article/the_numbers_new_yorkers_live_longer/ New Yorkers will live 2.85 years longer than the rest of us. The saying goes, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” So it should come as no surprise that Big Apple residents will live approximately 1,040 days longer than the national average, according to data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. What keeps the city that never sleeps ahead of the game? Over the past two decades, “New York has focused on healthy food and physical education in schools, smoking bans, trans fat bans, and also promoting simple things like making it safe and easy to walk the city,” says Dr. Ali Mokdad, who led the research. Non-Gothamites, however, have nothing to fear, he says. “You can live longer anywhere if you change your behavior.” In other words, city slicker or not, avoiding that extra-large cola might not be a half bad idea.