The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration had an urgent message last winter for his colleagues, brandishing data that life expectancy in the United States had fallen again - the biggest two-year decline in a century. Robert Califf's warning, summarized by three people with knowledge of the conversations, boiled down to this:Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Americans' life expectancy is going the wrong way. W

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