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I think it may be a question of definitions (can anyone find any for the micromorts widget on the understanding uncertainty website?)
I took 'getting out of bed' to mean overall death rates for the quoted age groups but the figures are much to low for this so are may be stats for the actual activity of 'getting out of bed' although I am surprised the cause of death is ever recorded as 'getting out of bed' so I am not sure where the stats come from.
In the UK the actual mortality rates for those aged 0-1 are 0.52% for boys and 0.43% for girls (source:ONS Interim Life Tables 2007-9)I think....0 -
I took 'getting out of bed' to mean 'dying that day.0
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"Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes is a good read
Haven't read his books, but his essay "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" was enough to convince me to try low-carb two years ago. I lost 5 stone 10 and have kept it off.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html?pagewanted=print0 -
And more people have been killed by pillows than polar bears, which proves that polar bears aren't dangerous.We have a winner!"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0
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