Interesting! What I see here is HLS seem to correlate with GDP per capita (except USA). I see that in studies that compare rich neighborhoods with poor neighborhoods. The lack of any health knowledge, availability of health care, availability of nutrition food choices and exercise all seem to be factors. But the rich kids are just as inactive and their diets suck just as bad.
As for health care. I have been able to travel ALL over the world during my competitive years. My wife is also from Argentina where I met her competing in a world championship. Oh they have nice hospitals and doctors in Buenos Aires but my wife was floored when when saw the Medical Center in Houston, like day and night. I have been all through South America, Europe and even Russia. Our health care here is heads above other countries but does have some serious issues in that it is quickly becoming unaffordable for most. Same with our medication. But I can promise the rest of the world is having the same issues with rising health care prices.
TB, any person who pushes a diet as a cure all and says EXERCISE is not factor is lying to you. There is just too much evidence that people who exercise are healtier, and tend not to over eat and have longer life spans/HLS. How do you think your cavemen got the food they ate? Sitting on the couch ordering food online to be delivered at their cave entrance?
"According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the
economic development of countries is what contributes to high rates of inactivity among its citizens. Access to more transportation options, the availability of technology, cultural values, and urbanization are all to blame for the increase in inactivity." " Many people are guilty of not getting enough physical activity, and in many cases, it’s not their fault. It’s a product of the society that the world has created and the demand that this society requires of people. It leaves little energy and time left over for purposeful physical activity."
- More than a quarter of the world’s adult population (1.4 billion adults) are insufficiently active
- Worldwide, around 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men do not do enough physical activity to stay healthy.
- Levels of inactivity are twice as high in high-income countries compared to low-income countries,
- There has been no improvement in global levels of physical activity since 2001C
- Insufficient activity increased by 5% (from 31.6% to 36.8%) in high-income countries between 2001 and 2016.
Physical inactivity - the single best predictor of early death
What do all of these chronic conditions have in common?
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As part of my job I teach a basic required course in health and physical fitness. We do basic fitness testing pre- and post. Curls ups, push ups, weight, VO2 max (1 mile walk), and BF. I am absolutely shocked every time at how physically out of shape 18-30 year olds are. This has nothing to do with diet and everything to do with sitting on their asses playing on social media all day. We require them to either do 10,000 steps/day or 100 hour of exercise. Most can't even get that done in a semester. At 65 I get more than 10,000 steps/d and over 400 hours of exercise each week. Hell when I took the course in the 80's I had to run a mile in under 7 minutes. I did it in 6 minutes and worked hard to gt that done.