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Why does the Mediterranean diet work so well? Because of the socialized healthcare. (in other words: "it's not the diet dummy", just like it's not the plastic)
by noja 4y ago
Why does the Mediterranean diet work so well? Because of the socialized healthcare.
(in other words: "it's not the diet dummy", just like it's not the plastic)
- honkdaddy 4y agoAfter living a year in Florida and then living a year in Serbia, I can't say I'm convinced it's the socialized healthcare is what makes Europeans so much skinnier than Americans.
- imtringued 4y agoI think the skinnier Europeans are what makes socialized healthcare work. Lots of expensive to treat diseases are just a result of a poor diet.
- floxy 4y agoDoesn't Serbia have one of the highest rates of tobacco smoking in the world?
- honkdaddy 4y agoTotally. It also has friendly, hilarious, tall and broad shouldered men who love to drink and gamble on soccer, women with great fashion sense who get their nails done religiously, and some of my favorite local folk music I've ever heard. I think the point I'm trying to make is that broad, multi-faceted cultural differences that span generations are a better explanation for differing obesity rates than one single factor like the lack of socialized healthcare. I think it takes living in Europe and also living in rural America to really understand just how different we are across the Atlantic, so broad demographic differences like this aren't something we can neatly attribute to one cause, nor should we aim to.
- astrange 4y agoIt’s because birth certificates are particularly unreliable in that region, which causes it to appear to have older people than it actually does.