Topic > Essay on Supernatural Cause - 1314

Having a good income frees people's lives from extra stress. In the film, the narrator compares people of different income statuses and interviews these two different families to observe how income can affect people's health. According to the narrator: “In some areas people die twice, and five, even ten years earlier than in others. Cancer and heart disease are almost double in some areas compared to others.” (Page 2) Unnatural Cause: The narrator observes two districts of Louisiana; one area is populated by the low-income working class, the other the opposite. The narrator is interviewing Jim Taylor, a sixty-year-old man who is the CEO of a hospital. During the interview Taylor expresses his thoughts on the benefits of living in an effluent community. For example, having less stress, being able to exercise without fear of being attacked. On the contrary, for a person living in a working-class community it is more difficult to have a healthy lifestyle due to a lack of time, security and desires. As for the desire, working class people have to work long hours in the factory to earn at least 20,000.00 a year, so they end their days extremely tired. Furthermore, affluent populations can afford better quality nutrition. Therefore, people with low income prefer to purchase food based on quantity rather than quality. In fact, social stress is the most common