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High school students in Arkansas eat fewer fewer fruits and vegetables than students in any other state.  This is not surprising in a state where a vegetable is something cooked in the bottom of a roasting pan and left on the plate after the meal is over, and a fruit is something used to decorate the far end of a dessert buffet. 

It makes me shudder to think of where half these kids will end up in thirty or thirty-five years.  Already I am seeing the middle-age gap, where on one side you have folks dying in their forties and fifties, and on the other side you have old folks in their late seventies and eighties who had no choice but to eat their vegetables growing up.

Soon, a decent lifespan will  come to mean making it past 50.  Again.