[lit-ideas] Re: Those healthier Canadians

I wonder how the consumption of fast food and fatty, fried, etc. food  
compares?
 
Julie Krueger

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It's thought to be lifestyle, John.  In  particular, we in the UK
walk more (people of the relevant generation walk  more).

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From: "John McCreery"  <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent:  Wednesday, May 31, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Those healthier  Canadians


> This is not a satirical subject line. Check  out
>
>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060530.whealth0530/BNStor
y/specialScienceandHealth/home
>
>  Story starts as follows:
>
>
> "Americans are 42 per cent more  likely than Canadians to have
> diabetes, 32 per cent more likely to have  high blood pressure,
and 12
> per cent more likely to have arthritis,  Harvard Medical School
> researchers found. That is according to a survey  in which
American and
> Canadian adults were asked over the telephone  about their
health.
>
> "The study comes less than a month after  other researchers
reported
> that middle-aged, white Americans are much  sicker than their
> counterparts in England.
>
> "We're really  falling behind other nations," said Dr. Steffie
> Woolhandler, a co-author  of the Canadian study.
>
> "Canada's national health insurance  program is at least part of
the
> reason for the differences found in  the study, Dr. Woolhandler
said.
> Universal coverage makes it easier  for more Canadians to get
> disease-preventing health services, she  said.
>
> "James Smith, a RAND Corp. researcher who co-authored  the
> American-English study, disagreed. His research found  that
England's
> national health insurance program did not explain  the
difference in
> disease rates, because even Americans with  insurance were in
worse
> health."
>
> Now, why should that  be?
>
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