Your apples, a bag of carrots and a carton of milk. Could these be the key to answering one of Cumbria’s most intriguing mysteries – why people in Greystoke live longer than those anywhere else in the county? Waiting at the bus stop for a trip to Penrith is Bill Carrick, a mere 85. During his working life Bill was a farm worker, a gypsum miner and a gardener. “I still do gardening, for yen or two old folk,” he explained. “I walk every day, round and about, two or three mile.” John Ashton, Cumbria Primary Care Trust’s director of public health, feels that the county’s widely differing life expectancy levels are due to a combination of factors. “People in the ward with lowest life expectancy have probably been there all their lives, in poorer circumstances with more risk factors. Fitter people have probably moved away as circumstances have allowed, leaving behind a concentration of unfitter people.
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