Below are excerpts from a article in the Wall Street Journal...if you have time click on the link at the end to read the whole piece..it's worth the read......
America is the land of the free, and its citizens live the shortest and sickest lives of anybody in the world's most-developed nations, according to an extensive analysis released last week.
If you want to live past age 50, your odds are better in 16 other developed nations, according to the 378-page study by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, titled "U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health."
We are not the land of plenty when it comes to health care. "Compared with people in other countries, Americans are more likely to find care inaccessible or unaffordable," the study said. Yet the U.S. spends more on health care per person than any other nation.
Our diseases are mostly the result of our appetites. And advertisers manipulate our appetites at our eyes' every turn, from smartphone screens to mini billboards hanging in public bathrooms.
If you feel like having sex, racing a car through a hairpin turn, raging at a stranger in public, drinking too much beer or eating an extra-large Meat Lover's Pizza, it may be because you just saw an image of someone doing it, or have some idiotic jingle stuck in your head, like, "…break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar."
You are free to indulge excessively. This keeps the corporate machinery humming. And if you die before age 50 you will be helping America solve its Social Security and Medicare crises, too.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324081704578234080047332090.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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