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Cancer, and Alzheimer's are generally not preventable. Being fat is. If you want to compare fat people dying of heart disease, and smokers dying of emphysema, f
by overcast 9y ago
Cancer, and Alzheimer's are generally not preventable. Being fat is. If you want to compare fat people dying of heart disease, and smokers dying of emphysema, fine. But don't compare an avoidable problem, with an unavoidable one.
- positr0n 9y agoWhy not? We're talking about average lifetime medical costs, so who cares if one is preventable and one isn't? From a public health perspective yes that absolutely matters, but all I'm saying is this narrow claim: You will not save money on medical costs if you get your population to act healthier and they die of unpreventable diseases instead of preventable ones.