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OK, don't take it from me, then: When we look at this year’s report, we see that we are living longer, but with an increasing burden of preventable chronic ill
by aaronbrethorst 6y ago
OK, don't take it from me, then:
When we look at this year’s report, we see that we are living longer, but with an increasing burden of preventable chronic illness. In particular, our nation’s health is persistently compromised by risk factors such as sedentary behavior, obesity, and diabetes.
http://cdnfiles.americashealthrankings.org/SiteFiles/Reports/Americas-Health-Rankings-2012-v1.pdf http://cdnfiles.americashealthrankings.org/SiteFiles/Reports...
So again: how do you define "healthier then average in 1960"?
- medvezhenok 6y agoWell, look at workplace accident rates, injury rates, lead poisoning in the house & at the pump (before petrol was de-leaded), smoking normalized across the board, cities filled with smog (pre-EPA). If you want numbers, there was a 3x decrease in mortality from heart/cardiovascular disease, 5x decrease in mortality from cerebrovascular disease (1960s were actually one of the most unhealthy decades to be alive in): https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/25/mortality-in-the-united-states-past-present-and-future https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/25/morta... Sedentary behavior, obesity and diabetes are more signals of stress rather than our current environment - look at the top 10% by income - those risk factors are nowhere to be found in that subgroup.