Seven Lessons Americans Can Learn From Immigrants to Live Longer

This new book explains how some customs that immigrants bring with them are helping them live longer in this country.   - - Donna Poisl

BY: JASON KANE

It's a phenomenon that's stumped social scientists for years. Hispanics in the U.S. are worse off than their white neighbors by almost every economic measure: poverty rates, dropout rates, access to health care.

Yet they live longer -- two years more than non-Hispanic whites and nearly seven years more than blacks. Other immigrant groups also seem to have better physical and mental health, especially in the first generation after moving to the U.S.
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