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Being American Is Bad for Your Health

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According to the New York Times, a growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the
longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart
disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born
children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the
parents.
Why worse health? Think about it. The
adoption of American behaviors — smoking, drinking, high calorie diets and sedentary lifestyles.

Robert O. Valdez, a professor of family and community medicine and
economics at the University of New Mexico, told the Times, “All the things we tell
people to do from a clinical perspective today — a lot of fiber and
less meat — were exactly the lifestyle habits that immigrants were
normally keeping.”

We should not be surprised at this. A country with supposedly the best health care system has a population that has an abundance of chronic conditions, mostly preventable. Yet unless we step up and take self-responsibility we will continue to be dependent on a health system that has little incentive to keep us healthy.


Source: http://anthonyssong.blogspot.com/2013/06/being-american-is-bad-for-your-health.html



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