Why Americans are dying earlier than their international peers

Just the type of article I'd expect from The Clinton News Network (aka CNN). There's no great mystery: Americans are dying from obesity (and problems related to obesity) and smoking (and problems related to smoking).....

If we want a better quality of life, we need to walk more, and not to McDonalds, and cut out all the garbage we eat and try to pass off as food. Eating the wrong foods gives you cancer and trying to say you're poor and don't know any better is lying...it's all over the TV and Internet so it's hard to avoid the subject. To me, CNN sounds like they're trying to plug Obama care....on that note, time to excerise before I have to get ready for work.....

Laura
 
Lau2046 said:
Just the type of article I'd expect from The Clinton News Network (aka CNN). There's no great mystery: Americans are dying from obesity (and problems related to obesity) and smoking (and problems related to smoking).....

If we want a better quality of life, we need to walk more, and not to McDonalds, and cut out all the garbage we eat and try to pass off as food. Eating the wrong foods gives you cancer and trying to say you're poor and don't know any better is lying...it's all over the TV and Internet so it's hard to avoid the subject. To me, CNN sounds like they're trying to plug Obama care....on that note, time to excerise before I have to get ready for work.....

Laura
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I think you aren't read the article that I posted and don't attempt to politicalize the article with "Clinton". The informations are from National Research Council and Institute Of Medicine, the high profile research organization.

From the article - US does fare better in some situations than other countries.
America does rank well in some health measures, according to the panel. The United States has higher cancer survival rates, lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels and lower smoking prevalence rates than many of its peer countries. Those Americans who make it to age 75 will survive longer than their peers in the comparison countries.
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Speaking about obesity, the individuals are responsible to take care of their body and if they don't take care of their body, so the government will try to take measurement to stop the rapid growth of obesity that has greater impact on cost of medical care. It may work or not work, like we tried with drug laws in 1970's to curb on drug addictions. It didn't work for government to cut the drug addictions and the serious reform is needed, especially strong education about impact of drugs.

There are a lot of problems with healthcare that need to be addressed and your mention about Obamacare isn't going fix any flaws that need addressed.

Also, you are federal employee and you already have great health insurance since many Americans, including me are not.
 
Lau2046 said:
Just the type of article I'd expect from The Clinton News Network (aka CNN). There's no great mystery: Americans are dying from obesity (and problems related to obesity) and smoking (and problems related to smoking).....

If we want a better quality of life, we need to walk more, and not to McDonalds, and cut out all the garbage we eat and try to pass off as food. Eating the wrong foods gives you cancer and trying to say you're poor and don't know any better is lying...it's all over the TV and Internet so it's hard to avoid the subject. To me, CNN sounds like they're trying to plug Obama care....on that note, time to excerise before I have to get ready for work.....

Laura
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Obamacare will be telling people the same thing you are saying. Having a healthy country will be the only way we can make this healthcare system succeed.
Unfortunately at present the economy built around killing us with bad food and chemical exposure is major. It has tremendous political power and provides the money that buys the propaganda to hate Obamacare.
The biggest question is when we change to healthy habits is how are those sorry so and so's that have been killing us like flies going to continue to employ millions of us Americans.
 
There may be some political propaganda to it because I do see people living longer here in the U.S. In my family, my parents and their sibling have out lived their parents by at least 10 to 20 years. Based on this, I would have ask, how old are Europeans really living to today? I have a friend who's
Grandmother is 104 years old, it's safe to say she beat the social security system.

I can tell you, unless there is a major epidemic people my age will certainly be living well into their 90's or more, gonna happen.
 
solution - eat more spicy food :)
 
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