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OK, but they cause a lot of death and injury quite apart from their effect on weight. Societies that drive more miles have higher mortality rates. When you comp
by dionidium 4y ago
OK, but they cause a lot of death and injury quite apart from their effect on weight. Societies that drive more miles have higher mortality rates. When you compare health care in the U.S. to other Western countries you have to consider how much we drive, how fat we are, and how many of us overdose.
- phpisthebest 4y agoThis is a topic about obesity not how cars do not do not contribute to other health concerns.
- dionidium 4y agoThis subthread was actually about the feasibility of public health programs in the U.S. And that's a topic that needs to account for those 3 areas in which we are outliers, especially if, as inevitably happens, people get around to drawing comparisons between the U.S. and Europe.