[lit-ideas] Re: Those healthier Canadians
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:52:03 EDT
I wonder how the consumption of fast food and fatty, fried, etc. food
compares?
Julie Krueger
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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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From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
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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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