A lot of people blame health problems in the US south on diet.
"It's not their fault. Their food is just very tasty"
Yeah. It's not just diet. It's also
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The fact US Southern States refuse to expand Medicaid, even when the federal goverment offered to pay for it.
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The fact they refuse to tax cigarettes. California, New York or Massachusetts tax the shit out of them. US southern states simply don't want to do it.
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Several southern states have no state-wide smoking bans. New York City banned smoking indoors in 2003. Louisiana's capital city banned smoking indoors in 2018.
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Strong opposition to road safety measures. New York is one of the safest state to drive in and one of the reasons is actually speed cameras (even though they are unpopular). Meanwhile, Mississsippi has the highest traffic fatalty rate in the US. Mississsippi decided to ban speed cameras and red-light cameras. Louisiana, another high fatalty state, also moved to ban them.
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There is a religious exemption for vaccination.
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The weakest gun laws in the US. There is no waiting period to purchase a weapon. Gun dealers aren't require to have a state licence. They aren't required to have safes and cameras. There is no ban on gun advertising. It's just a shit show.
Basically a lot of these problems have nothing to do with diet. It's political
It is mostly diet, though. Poor diet is the #1 cause of death in the US. It's not just a southern thing. The standard American diet is objectively unhealthy on a global scale. And when I say it's unhealthy, I mean it leads to premature deaths.
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in America, and although heart disease can be exacerbated by poor diet, it is also exacerbated by lack of activity, and given that most of the American South is highly vehicle dependent, that could be at least a reasonable part of the whole.
If it was a reasonable part of the whole, there would be evidence showing "Walking 30 minutes a day significantly reduces heart disease risk in obese patients". But there isn't, because that's a fantasy.
As far as I’m seeing walking 30 minutes a day does in fact reduce the risk of heart disease in obese patients
not to the degree of completely ameliorating the effects of a horrible diet but 30 minutes of walking benefits everyone even obese people
Dude. Think about what you just wrote.
Walking 30 minutes a day may partially offset the effects of a bad diet, yes
Do you have any research showing walking had no effect on hearth health for obese people because literally everything im seeing off google says it improves heart health
Ok, let's think about this for a second. If our "heart health" improves from two blocked arteries and a shut down valve at 70 to 1 blocked artery and a shut down valve, are we going to live our full lifespan? No? We're still going to die prematurely because of a shitty diet.
Lol that’s a desperate contortion
Walking is not gonna reverse existing sclerosis or something
Walking will still make the heart healthier tho and can partially offset the life expectancy loss/risk
Which is also political. People don't have access to affordable healthy food. So they buy cheaper things they know aren't as healthy and then get blamed for it.
SAD is such an appropriate acronym for this. It tickles me every time I see it.
I've travelled round the states a bit. Louisiana had by far the best food of any of the States I visited both in terms of taste and nutritional content.
Poor diet isn't even the #1 cause of preventable deaths in the US. That's smoking. Followed by obesity (which isn't all poor diet). And then air pollution and accidents.
You can't just look at about a quarter of all deaths being heart disease and say that's all poor diet. Old people die of hearts failing for myriad reasons. Nor does obesity explain the next quarter of deaths to cancer, though it does complicate and contribute to those too. Nor does it explain strokes, respiratory diseases, dementia (which is largely air pollution), or even diabetes (approximately half of which are type 1 diabetes and lifestyle only affects chances of developing type 2 diabetes, it doesn't determine it).