Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela turned 93 today. If he looks great, its because he had help.

As it turns out, he lived so long because he was in prison for so many years. At least that’s what this study is claiming. From Reuters here:

Black Men Live Longer Inside Prison Than Out

Reuters is reporting that a new study of North Carolina inmates suggests that black men are half as likely to die at any given time if they’re in prison than if they are not. The findings, published in Annals of Epidemiology, were based on a study that involved about 100,000 men between age 20 and 79 who were held in North Carolina prisons at some point between 1995 and 2005. Less than one percent of men (more than half of whom were black) in total died while in prison, and there was no difference between black and white inmates in that regard. But outside prison, blacks have a higher rate of death at any given age than whites.

And here is Mandella’a head on a platter! As a cake, of course.