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Pretty sure I lost some brain cells reading your comment > The US is nowhere near the top in terms of suicide rates in the world. ... Is that really an argume

• tha_nose 8y ago
  It isn't an argument against action. It is an argument against exaggeration and hyperbole though. What studies are you referring to? In any case, a small change in suicide rates would affect a dozen people. A small change in heart disease, cancer and diabetes would affect tens of thousands of people. It would be great to cure cancer, but we don't have to cure cancer to affect change. We can't cure suicide either. There will always be suicide. But we know that less processed food, less sugary drinks, etc leads to less heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. Even a slight reduction in heart disease, cancer and diabetes would save more people than all the people who die of suicide. Simple things like less soda, less microwave dinners and more walking could mean hundreds of thousands of less deaths, but I guess we can focus on the few thousand suicides and the possibility of saving dozens of lives. I'm sorry that facts, stats and reality made you lose a few brain cells.