A recent report reveals that those of us in United States are less healthy than our counterparts across the pond. The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association say that Americans who are middle-aged and older have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, heart attack, stroke, lung disease, lung disease and cancer than people of the same age living in England. For example, we are twice as likely to have diabetes and 10% more likely to have high blood pressure.