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U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline

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Re: U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline

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Post by quickthrower2 »

butwhywhyoh wrote: post #15
eric4smith wrote: post #3

Obesity. Covid literally attacks obese people. And obese people also are at huge risk. I'm overweight and I was literally frightened during covid. Now I lift weights every day and work on my diet very hard. But we are literally ignoring the elephant (literally) in the room.

You used the word literally four times in your post, and even twice in one sentence. What's the fascination with this word? It seems to be used to add completely unneeded emphasis, rather than anything resembling its original definition.

Probably trying to convey emotion/emphasis through plain text.

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Post by remarkEon »

eric4smith wrote: post #3

Obesity. Covid literally attacks obese people. And obese people also are at huge risk. I'm overweight and I was literally frightened during covid. Now I lift weights every day and work on my diet very hard. But we are literally ignoring the elephant (literally) in the room.

Hear, hear.

One of the greatest failings of our "modern" healthcare system is that there's no plan to address this crisis. Obesity is the gateway to what seems like an infinite amount of health complications - not to mention the additional burden on the health care system itself when they get sick. I fully acknowledge that it's a difficult subject, it upsets people, and it's uncomfortable. The greatest healthcare advice our leaders can give us right now is for everyone to exercise a little more and lost a little weight. Isn't this the perfect time for that? We're coming out of a pandemic and we have the actual data that showed that obese people were uniquely susceptible to bad outcomes from this disease.

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Post by musha68k »

nishs wrote: post #4

From the article, “The Covid-19 pandemic is the primary cause of the decline.” And it is going to decline further. Covid affects multiple organ systems; the acute phase of the infection, it is safe to say at this point, is not the primary cause of concern. Covid-19 infection increases the chances of a stroke 4x and of heart failure more than 10x, among other disorders, within 12 months of infection. [1] A chief scien…

The effects are also compounding with each re-infection.

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Post by zackees »

nishs wrote: post #4

From the article, “The Covid-19 pandemic is the primary cause of the decline.” And it is going to decline further. Covid affects multiple organ systems; the acute phase of the infection, it is safe to say at this point, is not the primary cause of concern. Covid-19 infection increases the chances of a stroke 4x and of heart failure more than 10x, among other disorders, within 12 months of infection. [1] A chief scien…

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Post by dukeofdoom »

Lots of Sudden Adult Deaths. And now people getting weaken immune response reinfections like Shingles. And even Athletes dropping out due to heart damage from the vaccine. Literally while Novak Djokovic wasn't allowed to play for not taking the vaccine, another athlete had to drop out of the same tournament with chest pains. Many people have low level myocarditis heart damage, that went undetected. Only when stressed it might suddenly show up and drop them in the years to come.

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Post by superchroma »

rayiner wrote: post #5

Less than 3 years longer than Bangladesh.

This is an important point. Americans need to take all the pairs of rose tinted glasses they have off and see that they're not stacking up that well to many other countries on numerous dimensions. It's not sufficient to gesture to prices of retail goods and say things are fine, because those prices have totally cratered in the last few years.

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #18
eric4smith wrote: post #3

Obesity. Covid literally attacks obese people. And obese people also are at huge risk. I'm overweight and I was literally frightened during covid. Now I lift weights every day and work on my diet very hard. But we are literally ignoring the elephant (literally) in the room.

Low carb diet helped me with this. Calories in calories out, but if you have a lot of carbs you are going to get hungry when restricting the calories, whereas on a low carb diet I sometimes have to think hard as to whether I have had breakfast or not by 10am. Having woke up at 7am. "Oh I should probably eat something..." I think I have less than 50g of carbs a day, and probably 1500 calories but I don't track it too…

Quitting alcohol and going to OMAD (one meal a day) helped me lose 20 kilos in < 2 months. And I wasn’t even obese, that was straight from overweight to goal weight. Alcohol is an enormous contributor to weight for several different reasons. Plus, the weight you get as a drinker (the “hard” fat) is the worst kind of fat your body can have.

Re: U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline

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Post by obblekk »

This even shows up in countries that had lax lockdowns vs. strict lockdowns: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?end=2020...

This data next year will be very telling to see the true efficacy of strict lockdowns (I suspect very effective at preventing death since vaccines arrived so quickly). Australia data should be interesting next year (very strict to very lax after vaccines).

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