No. of Recommendations: 4
Says you. It's an excellent argument. If everyone in the room says you're drunk, believe them, you're drunk.So when every other teenager huffs Tide Pods and steals Hyundais because TikTok said so, that's what we'll do, I guess!
U.S. life expectancy is ranked 48th in the world, behind almost every other OECD country.
And this is single-sourced traced to the national health care system, is it? I'll answer for you: No, it's not.
Americans don't exercise enough and eat too much junky, processed crap. We have some of the highest rates of highly preventable diseases in the world:
https://www.heart.org/-/media/PHD-Files-2/Science-...Physical Inactivity
• In 2020, the overall prevalence of meeting the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans for aerobic activity was 24.2% in US adults.
• Among US high school students in 2019, 44.1% were physically active for 60 minutes or
more on at least 5 days of the week.
Nutrition
• Using the AHA’s Life’s Essential 8 scoring metric, diet was among the 4 metrics with the
lowest scores; the range for diet across demographic groups was 23.8 to 47.7 out of
100.
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2024 Statistics Update – At-a-Glance Statistics
• Among children 2 to 5 years of age, a mean diet score of 61.1 out of 100 was observed.
The score for children 12 to 19 years of age was 28.5 out of 100.
• Using 2019 data, an estimated 7.9 million deaths and 188 million disability-adjusted life
years were attributable to dietary risks. The leading dietary risk factors were high
sodium intake, low whole grain intake, and low legume intake. As they say in the fitness world, you can't outrun a bad diet. Give all these people all the free health care and watch them drive to McDonald's and eat chicken McNuggets from the couch.
You bet we do.Then move some place that has it, 'cause you ain't getting it here.
