long-term liabilities have factored in our increasing mortality rate.
The chart below is truly astonishing. We are the only developed country with a life expectancy that is declining.
Something is wrong.
Link: https://growthevidence.com/growth-commentaries/
The overall lower score is because we do healthcare worse in this country, especially for the poor.
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Guidelines on boxed foods, and so on. Must be something to that, Yes?
......but looking at this chart (if accurate) the biggest way to get such a dramatic difference is to lose young life which brings down a general life expectancy age more quickly.
Thus, I would suspect, the opioid epidemic, Chinese fentanyl ....drugs in general combined with sky rocketing murder rates in the cities, and increasing suicide rates of young teens is the real cause here along with obesity/sedentary life style.
and our on the go lifestyle does not leave sufficient time for healthy food prep. We are victims of our own success.
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...at Mickey D's.
Not agreeing or disagreeing...just trying to clarify from the cheap seats...
We kind of figured out how to domesticate plants and animals over 10,000 years ago and I don't recall obesity being such a big problem throughout the ages. We don't really "gather round the kill" and overindulge out of necessity or because of some ancient instinctual twitch.
- Fat fucks
- middle-aged, seemingly able-bodied people riding around on pity scooters
- trashy fast food outlets
Sure, they smoke way more than North Americans, but man, they walk everywhere and their fast food options (there is a Pret a Manger on every block in London) are far more healthy than we have here.
The North American diet is disgraceful.
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We have more extremes here. Lots of uber fit people and lots of grossly obese people.
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126 grams times 365 days = 45990 grams per year = 1622 ounces/101 pounds of sugar per year.
That is why we are fat. Our bodies are not adapted to eat that amount of sugar. We damage our liver/kidneys when we eat that much and store the excess sugar as fat.
Our health care costs are largely driven by the diabetes epidemic. Tackle sugar=tackling health care costs.
I agree with your post.
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