Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits
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#2Isn't it the same everywhere (assuming there is no war or natural calamity etc like situation)?
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#3Are American eating habits really that significantly different from Canadian eating habits to explain the fact that the US spends twice as much per capita as Canada spends - notwithstanding the 50 million Americans without coverage?
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#4The headline "Majority US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits" is not the headline of the article, nor is this supposed fact stated anywhere in the article.
I very much doubt it's true, and I don't think it's well-defined enough to even be false.
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#5Are American eating habits really that significantly different from Canadian eating habits to explain the fact that the US spends twice as much per capita as Canada spends - notwithstanding the 50 million Americans without coverage?
Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different:
http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
Re: Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits
#6The headline "Majority US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits" is not the headline of the article, nor is this supposed fact stated anywhere in the article. I very much doubt it's true, and I don't think it's well-defined enough to even be false.
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Re: Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits
#7Are American eating habits really that significantly different from Canadian eating habits to explain the fact that the US spends twice as much per capita as Canada spends - notwithstanding the 50 million Americans without coverage?
Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different: http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
If you look at the comments below the post, though, the comparison doesn't seem to be valid, due to different measurement methodologies.
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#8Are American eating habits really that significantly different from Canadian eating habits to explain the fact that the US spends twice as much per capita as Canada spends - notwithstanding the 50 million Americans without coverage?
Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different: http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
WOW. That's just astonishing - thanks for the link! I think it's definitely worth studying how two very similar societies can have such radically different obesity indicators.
Re: Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits
#9Are American eating habits really that significantly different from Canadian eating habits to explain the fact that the US spends twice as much per capita as Canada spends - notwithstanding the 50 million Americans without coverage?
Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different: http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
As a Canadian living in the USA I have to say, we don't eat that differently in Canada, the big difference is we eat less.
Canada is just as full of greasy, nutrtionless, processed-to-hell food as America is, but we simply do not consume as much of it, from my observations.
When I moved to the USA I immediately (over 4 months) gained a buttload of weight (both figuratively and literally...). This is due to my bad habit of finishing everything on my plate. I've since fixed this and my weight is rapidly decreasing. Yay. Serving sizes in the USA are simply ludicrous and completely out of step with reality.
Before talking about high-fiber, low-fat diets, Americans need to do one simple (but difficult) thing: eat less. Eat way less.
A friend and I (both Canadian) paid a visit to the Cheesecake Factory this last weekend - when our plates landed on our table our eyes bugged out. There was enough food to feed 4 people in a standard Canadian restaurant. I'm not even exaggerating :S The table next to ours polished their food single-handedly and then ordered dessert. We were shocked. How any single person can consume that much food in one sitting is unimaginable, and somewhat disgusting.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different: http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
As a Canadian living in the USA I have to say, we don't eat that differently in Canada, the big difference is we eat less . Canada is just as full of greasy, nutrtionless, processed-to-hell food as America is, but we simply do not consume as much of it, from my observations. When I moved to the USA I immediately (over 4 months) gained a buttload of weight (both figuratively and literally...). This is due to my bad ha…
Well, the Cheesecake Factory is a bit of an outlying case -- those portions are ridiculous even by American standards. But as an Australian living in the US I agree with you -- I find it hard just to get a normally-sized meal for breakfast or lunch.
In Australia, if you order a ham and cheese sandwich, you get ham and cheese. In America if you order a ham and cheese sandwich you get a huge stack of ham, a bit of cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles (!?), maybe some sprouts, mayo and a bright yellow mustard-like substance. If I tell them I just want ham and cheese they look at me like I'm crazy (and I am, cuz I'll be paying about six bucks for this sandwich anyway).
On the other hand, last I heard Australian rates of obesity have overtaken US rates. On the other other hand, Australia probably has more of the slightly-fat people (ordinary folks with big beer guts) and fewer of the ridiculously-fat people (acres of waddling flesh or too-fat-to-walk electric wheelchair folks).