The gap of time between how long Americans live and how much of that time is spent in good health only grew wider in the last two decades, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study, which looked at global health data between 2000 and 2019—prior to the COVID-19 pandemic—found the US stood out for its years of suffering. By 2019, Americans had a gap between their lifespan and their healthspan of 12.4 years, the largest gap of any of the 183 countries included in the study. The second largest gap was Australia's, at 12.1 years, followed by New Zealand at 11.8 years and the UK at 11.3 years.
America also stood out for having the largest burden of noncommunicable diseases in the world, as calculated by the years lived with disease or disability per 100,000 people.
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Just for a tidbit lots of people that I'm around are poor eaters and just don't care even when I point out better food choices and even when reading the ingredients showing just how unhealthy they are. Sad but true, not saying that our foods shouldn't be cleaned up of the very bad additives, put there will still be bad choices even after removing the unhealthy ingredients. Old saying you can lead a horse too water but can't make it drink it.
You are right, no question, antiworldorder2. Nothing will ever completely solve the problem of bad choices. Legislation and government force certainly won't.
MAHA won't end poor choices like alcohol abuse, but substituting healthier ingredients for unhealthy ingredients and removing outright poisons from products sold as "food" will have a huge impact. People won't HAVE to make better choices in most cases; the better choices will be made by the producers, simply by requiring them to STOP POISONING THEIR CUSTOMERS.
People will still be able to over-eat, to eat poor diets, and so on, but they WON'T be eating artificial food colorings or a lot of other things already banned in most of the world. They probably won't be eating or drinking high-fructose corn syrup, or for that matter getting their children poisoned with umpty-nine "vaccines". They won't be getting addicted to cancer-causing, health-robbing frankenfoods carefully CREATED to be addicting. Food will again just be food.
BEFORE all this crap was stealthily inserted into our food (and elsewhere), Americans were mostly trim, fit, and healthy. Here's what Americans looked like in 1969:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/08/woodstock-50-photos-1969/596107/
See any fat people? These are ordinary young adults from all over the country -- roughly half a MILLION of them -- and not a fatso among them. Well, not in the fifty photos at the above link, anyway. And "trim and healthy" was indeed the norm at that time. Also, diabetes, asthma, and lots of other chronic conditions were rare instead of commonplace.
So yes, some will make bad choices; that can't be fixed (although reducing infant and childhood trauma CAN and DOES reduce the problem; those raised in a healthy, compassionate home without major traumas rarely grow up into druggies, criminals, alcoholics, etc -- but that's a long-term fix; something we SHOULD be tending to but not something that will solve the problem next year).
But MAHA will have a HUGE, POSITIVE impact -- if it doesn't get derailed in one way or another.
Thanks I agree. Good write up, I grew up in 50's and yes foods were healthier, even natural foods. People back then were more active outside, the kids, adults today setting playing the games on devices of choice and eating drinking the crap foods that the parents buy, you can't be sedentary and eat all kinds of foods that want end up making you fat, calories are calories no matter what kind of foods, you'll still put on weight, but at least maybe now they want have all the bad side effects like inflammations, Asthma etc.. Some people just like to eat and will say I'm going to die of something anyway. We just have to except that not everyone cares, still it'll be a good start.