A Late-Summer Reminder to Have Fun the Healthy Way This Fall

By: Pedro Ribeiro Simões

I found out recently that the CDC has extensive records not only of the numbers and types of deaths across the country, but also of the potential life we’re losing each year.

Did you think this was going to be an exclusively upbeat how-to guide? The fun stuff comes later.

A quick visit to the CDC website will turn up their page on Years of Potential Life Lost, or YPLL. This statistic is a valuable tool for keeping track of – and there’s no delicate way to put it – how early we’re dying. There’s data about nearly every major cause …read more