Moved to TN last year. I've never seen so many people riding those electric carts in Walmart. You gotta walk!
Even a little. Even if it hurts..
Even a little. Even if it hurts..
The 20-year life expectancy gap inside the United States
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Agree but I think we put WAY, WAY too much weight on incomes.
Lack of health education maybe? It's really easy to eat good food even on a budget. I would suggest even in high incomes areas you will see bumper to bumper traffic outside of Chick Filets monster size sugar drinks both diet and non diet.
I think there is a mentality in many places of not caring about health. Really much like an addict.
After all, despite incomes. Eating Junk food is not cheap, vs making a Tuna or chicken sandwich at home with a piece of fruit and a glass of water. Two examples of endless possibilities.
That is cheap instead of eating fast food. As a population we are much like rodents, eat whatever as long as it's cheap, easy and satisfies us. That is the key, nationwide a sugar addiction. (which is also carbohydrates)
I can bet many people suffering from diminished lifespan eat 3-4 processed foods with polysorbate every day
Wonder how much NARCAN skews this map. Heroin addicts aren't fat but also have short lives most times.
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It's a chicken or the egg question for me.
Would the "cart people" otherwise not go out as much, or at all, was it not for the carts helping them around the store?
or, are they just taking advantage of the carts to be extra lazy?
Maybe a little of both. Understandable if you see a 500lb lady overflowing the cart seat, moving along at .3 m/hr with smoke coming out the motor. But some younger guy, whos NOT in a leg cast....makes me wonder.
Side story. I did a claim where our insured hit a guy in a mobility cart, minor damage, still driveable, IIRC steering post was bent. It was totaled of course, but he wanted to retain it and even had "a guy" that fixes these things. It was a legit cart repair shop too, they did battery swaps, tune-ups, and tires. The guy got IIRC $1500 and I think we didn't even charge him for salvage retention.
When we were first married and not very well off, the wife of an engineering classmate gave us some advice that we've lived by ever since. "Never skimp on food". And we never have.
Yes we use cheaper cuts of beef for stews and pot roasts. That's only logical. And we eat a lot of sole, which is the cheapest fish, but we really like sole. We like it about as well as halibut which is much more expensive.
I grew up with parents from the famine time, and that really made them "eat as much as possible" once they start migrating to a new place and enter middle class. My mom also hates cooking and her solution to not knowing how to cook well is, more oil, more aromatics, more sodium, and sear things a bit longer for the char.
I was obese until I moved to Virginia to live with a different family for a year. As I said earlier I got sick of eating chicken nuggets, instant rice, and boiled corn and broccoli for one year and went from obese to slightly underweight, and 3 inches smaller waist line.
Sometimes it is very hard to change a habit you got from your family, and society in general as a culture.
He was a neighbor, when I was a kid. He was a nice guy, with some cool cars.
Extremely relevant to this discussion.
Wow~! Yes sir, thank you, "Extremely Relevant" for sure. Fantastic. Now, how to exactly measure your waste circumference or is it waste to hip ratio?
Your like the old library card catalogs of videos
Anyway, very good , summarizes nicely some of the things I have been working on in that other thread.
I just measure around the widest part.Wow~! Yes sir, thank you, "Extremely Relevant" for sure. Fantastic. Now, how to exactly measure your waste circumference or is it waste to hip ratio?
Your like the old library card catalogs of videos
Anyway, very good , summarizes nicely some of the things I have been working on in that other thread.
Push out or suck in of guttage?I just measure around the widest part.
Don't suck, LOL. Just stand relaxed.
Demographics matter too.
Diet, stress, fitness/activity level, weight, exposure to environmental or chemical pollutants, genetics, available health care,
exposure to sunlight, education/knowledge.
exposure to sunlight, education/knowledge.
Good summary.
I would also like to toss out the concept of "health span." Modern medicine can do a lot to prolong life now, but often it is like tying the bumpers back on the car with bailing twine after the supports have rusted through. We want to prolong not just our lifespan but just as importantly, we want to maximize the time we are able to live healthy and strong and active lifestyles. Who wants to have 10 extra years while confined to a wheelchair in a retirement home?
Put down that soda and get on your bike and ride. (self pep talk)
Sunlight is INTERESTING. Look at the blue in a our area of doom.
Vit D, mood, maybe metabolism as well. I go somewhere sunny and blood glucose drops, weight drops. Even though worser food groups. I am willing to say 90% of that is activity level, but almost seems uncanny as I grew up in So Cal.
Natural sunlight is good, too much bad or neutral. But seems to vary by person. Not sure if there are studies.
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Double boarded ICU/Pulmonologist. Interesting research on IR stimulating mitochondria deep into our body. It can help release cytokines or whatever is needed in older people, via red light therapy, as mitochondria are not as strong during a flu to combat the virus.
Many of his points have been well known and even implemented in previous pandemics, often without any understanding why.
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