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They say that the life expectancy is a 20 year difference in Baltimore depending on where you live in the city. Kiarra Boulware is one example of someone that is feeling it in Baltimore, she has a problem with eating and over eating because she doesn’t have the proper eating habits. www.theatlantic.com

In Baltimore, a 20-year gap in life expectancy exists between the city’s poor, largely African American neighborhoods and its wealthier, whiter areas. A baby born in Cheswolde, in Baltimore’s far-northwest corner, can expect to live until age 87. Nine miles away in Clifton-Berea, near where The Wire was filmed, the life expectancy is 67, roughly the same as that of Rwanda, and 12 years shorter than the American average. Similar disparities exist in other segregated cities, such as Philadelphia and Chicago.

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