[lit-ideas] Re: Those healthier Canadians

Can the greater vacation time in Europe (I don't know about Canada) have 
something to do with it?  Americans work more than any other country.  Also, 
maybe some of the other socialized services in Europe  has something to do with 
keeping stress levels down?  The idea of a safety net in the background?  
There's a famous study (I can't think of the name of it but I can look it up 
later) where there were two towns in Pennsylvania that were tracked for heart 
disease.  One town typically ate all the right things (it had lots of yuppy go 
getter style residents), did the workouts and had relatively high rates of 
heart disease.  Another town ate all the wrong things, but they were a close 
knit Italian-American town, with strong family and friend relationships.  Even 
though they had worse diets, they had below average rates of heart disease.  
Maybe something along those lines has something to do with the way the U.S. 
compares to other countries?
   
   
  

JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
      I wonder how the consumption of fast food and fatty, fried, etc. food 
compares?
   
  Julie Krueger

========Original Message========         Subj:  [lit-ideas] Re: Those healthier 
Canadians    Date:  5/31/06 1:03:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time    From:  
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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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> This is not a satirical subject line. Check out
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>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060530.whealth0530/BNStory/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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