California Business Minute™

Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

Researchers from the University of California from Berkeley and Santa Barbara
campuses have found that California’s mild winters are good for one’s health and
are even nudging up American’s average lifespan.

Comparing death records and climate data between 1972 and 1988, researchers report
that Chicago had the highest annual average of cold-related deaths, with 542 deaths per
100,000 elderly people, followed by Minneapolis with 448 and Detroit with 426 - in
comparison to only 24 in San Jose and none in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego.

The 14,380 deaths each year linked to extreme cold, accounted for 0.8 percent of the nation's
annual death rate, outnumber those attributed to leukemia, murder and chronic liver disease
combined the study reports.

The search for warmth is the reason why so much of the retired population living in the north
‘snowbirds’ come south to California and Arizona every winter.

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.