The debate on what constitutes good health, the growing numbers who are obese, how to cut back on smoking, and all related topics, continues unabated - as it should.
But where you live may make a difference too it seems, if this article in the IHT portrays the health-score between the US and the UK correctly:
"Medical researchers recently set heads to shaking on both sides of the Atlantic with a study showing that white, middle-aged English people are much healthier than white, middle-aged Americans. The English have less cancer, less high blood pressure, less heart disease and stroke, and less diabetes. To make sure that the difference was not just the result of stiff-upper-lip Brits keeping quiet about what ails them, the researchers also examined biological data, which confirmed the disparity."
Interesting! What has caused all of this? Read the full IHT article here.
But where you live may make a difference too it seems, if this article in the IHT portrays the health-score between the US and the UK correctly:
"Medical researchers recently set heads to shaking on both sides of the Atlantic with a study showing that white, middle-aged English people are much healthier than white, middle-aged Americans. The English have less cancer, less high blood pressure, less heart disease and stroke, and less diabetes. To make sure that the difference was not just the result of stiff-upper-lip Brits keeping quiet about what ails them, the researchers also examined biological data, which confirmed the disparity."
Interesting! What has caused all of this? Read the full IHT article here.
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