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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: denarii on February 25, 2019, 02:32:36 AM
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Twinkie based diets at one end and Dialysis McKidney lifestyles at the other, while the rise of Obama's son/ Dindu-ism is also taking its toll.
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Will anyone ever beat Japan when it comes to Life Expectancy?
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Glad to see we're not far away from Japan guess spaghetti are our secret :)
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Will anyone ever beat Japan when it comes to Life Expectancy?
Only if there's another world war.
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it is because of steroids
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Will anyone ever beat Japan when it comes to Life Expectancy?
Is it really worth living those extra years if seaweed is a big part of your diet?
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Thanks Drumpf
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Will anyone ever beat Japan when it comes to Life Expectancy?
The 2011 Fukushima accident will put the kibosh on that. Many people will develop horrible cancers. You'll never hear about it on MSM.
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Is it really worth living those extra years if seaweed is a big part of your diet?
Exactly, why would anyone want to eat seaweed???
I'd rather have 50-60 years of enjoying what i eat over 100+ years of seaweed lol
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Is it really worth living those extra years if seaweed is a big part of your diet?
You dont like miso soup or nori mats then? I bet you dont shave your balls either.
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Suicide Rate By Country 2019
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/suicide-rate-by-country/
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Will anyone ever beat Japan when it comes to Life Expectancy?
Yes, just in Italy which is right behind Japan. The people seem miserable about the state of their nation and their economy but they truck along with their good eating and family solidarity and walking everywhere and live longer than anybody else.
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Yes, just in Italy. The people seem miserable about the state of their nation and their economy but they truck along with their good eating and family solidarity and walking everywhere and live longer than anybody else.
Believe me: north and south are two different animals. In the north life, work, hospitals, schools are quite similar to the German model.
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Believe me: north and south are two different animals. In the north life, work, hospitals, schools are quite similar to the German model.
The Arab invaders never got north of Rome right?
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Believe me: north and south are two different animals. In the north life, work, hospitals, schools are quite similar to the German model.
Lombards actually were German I believe. But I think the life expectancy statistics are true for BOTH north and south.
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Lombards actually were German I believe. But I think the life expectancy statistics are true for BOTH north and south.
I'm in that area. And yes the way of life and its standards are Germany like.
Concerning life expectancy I believe it's an average between the two (north - south).
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Why isn't Portugal featured there? :-[
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Infant mortality and the early deaths of the obese & chronically ill drag our life expectancy down. If you make it to 65, you're likely to make it another 20 years or something like that.
Anyone want to comment on our health expenditures being double or triple that of other countries?
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Are there any obese centenarians?
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Are there any obese centenarians?
You don't see a lot of 80+-year-olds walking around at 250 lbs (with or without abs).
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Infant mortality and the early deaths of the obese & chronically ill drag our life expectancy down. If you make it to 65, you're likely to make it another 20 years or something like that.
Anyone want to comment on our health expenditures being double or triple that of other countries?
Here is my two cents, lots of various factors:
Profits and over complicated administrative procedures of insurance companies
Fancy hospital construction, all the hospital systems competing with each other for affluent suburban patients
Litigation, we are lawsuit crazy
Obesity and poor eating and no exercise, we go everywhere in our cars
Poverty and associated poor health outcomes and habits in those communities
More procedure response to EVERYTHING, we want to live forever and our doctors go along with it (also because of lawsuit factor above) and television advertising plays a role
Drug prices, we subsidize the whole world. We and our insurers pay top dollars for drugs, while all the other governments around the world force the drug companies to accept lower prices
Addiction, we have a worse problem than others
Our doctors make more money than other doctors around the world, mainly specialists
Fraud: people in the US are more likely to fraudulently game the system (more than in other nations) and the government bureaucracies and, to some extent, insurers are not effective in combatting fraud.
But keep in mind that most of the world’s advances in medical care come out of the US. So a final factor, more altruistic, is that our consumers and insurers are subsidizing world wide R&D big time.
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You dont like miso soup or nori mats then? I bet you dont shave your balls either.
I like Japanese culture but not so much the food. Miso soup sucks. Japanese desserts are the drizzling shits. Sushi just doesn’t fill me up.
And yes I do shave my balls, thoroughly. 💈
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Here is my two cents, lots of various factors:
Profits and over complicated administrative procedures of insurance companies
Fancy hospital construction, all the hospital systems competing with each other for affluent suburban patients
Litigation, we are lawsuit crazy
Obesity and poor eating and no exercise, we go everywhere in our cars
Poverty and associated poor health outcomes and habits in those communities
More procedure response to EVERYTHING, we want to live forever and our doctors go along with it (also because of lawsuit factor above) and television advertising plays a role
Drug prices, we subsidize the whole world. We and our insurers pay top dollars for drugs, while all the other governments around the world force the drug companies to accept lower prices
Addiction, we have a worse problem than others
Our doctors make more money than other doctors around the world, mainly specialists
But keep in mind that most of the world’s advances in medical care come out of the US. So a final factor, more altruistic, is that our consumers and insurers are subsidizing world wide R&D big time.
Excellent response, I mostly agree. One thing you missed (in my opinion) is the massive bureaucratic headache that all of the different insurance companies pose to billing departments. Every company has a different way of billing & coding healthcare expenditures and that takes a lot of time & money to manage. Some estimates say this comprises as much as 1/3 of our healthcare expenditures.
Having a universal healthcare system would of course eliminate much of that overhead 8) ... but that's a different conversation.
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Excellent response, I mostly agree. One thing you missed (in my opinion) is the massive bureaucratic headache that all of the different insurance companies pose to billing departments. Every company has a different way of billing & coding healthcare expenditures and that takes a lot of time & money to manage. Some estimates say this comprises as much as 1/3 of our healthcare expenditures.
Having a universal healthcare system would of course eliminate much of that overhead 8) ... but that's a different conversation.
Insurance companies are an interesting part of the discussion. The interesting fact here is that, even if we go to universal health care (e.g., Medicare for All), insurance companies will still be in the picture, but simply in another way. This is because American government entities tend to “outsource” to outside experts (even things like parking and prisons and intelligence, and some aspects of war). State Medicaid programs mostly farm the business out to private insurance companies. And nearly one third of Medicare beneficiaries are in private Medicare Advantage plans. I go back and forth on whether Medicare for All is a good idea or not. Medicare works pretty well, but Medicaid is more iffy. Not sure what we would end up with.
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Will anyone ever beat Japan when it comes to Life Expectancy?
maybe when americans learn to stay at a healthy body weight like they do
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I don’t get this argument about drug prices and insurance companies over charging. If this were a true market economy would this not create an opportunity for other companies to come in an undercut them? The problem is that it’s an overly intervened market that restricts competition.
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Stress.
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I don’t get this argument about drug prices and insurance companies over charging. If this were a true market economy would this not create an opportunity for other companies to come in an undercut them? The problem is that it’s an overly intervened market that restricts competition.
No, drugs have patents on them (for a number of years) and, during the period of the patent, no other company can make that drug (for example, it now costs $80,000 or more to get the drug that cures Hepatitis C in two months). After the patent expires, your argument holds. But, even then, foreign governments will squeeze the generic companies down whereas our government Medicare pays what the companies ask (we don’t want to be “socialistic”) and our insurance companies don’t have the same clout as governments do in regard to private patients. It is because of these factors that US consumers are subsidizing world wide health care. We are paying the $80,000 for Hepatitis C (before other nations’ patients do, thus contributing to the R&D process) and we are paying much more for the generics once the patents expire.
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Here is my two cents, lots of various factors:
Profits and over complicated administrative procedures of insurance companies
Fancy hospital construction, all the hospital systems competing with each other for affluent suburban patients
Litigation, we are lawsuit crazy
Obesity and poor eating and no exercise, we go everywhere in our cars
Poverty and associated poor health outcomes and habits in those communities
More procedure response to EVERYTHING, we want to live forever and our doctors go along with it (also because of lawsuit factor above) and television advertising plays a role
Drug prices, we subsidize the whole world. We and our insurers pay top dollars for drugs, while all the other governments around the world force the drug companies to accept lower prices
Addiction, we have a worse problem than others
Our doctors make more money than other doctors around the world, mainly specialists
But keep in mind that most of the world’s advances in medical care come out of the US. So a final factor, more altruistic, is that our consumers and insurers are subsidizing world wide R&D big time.
Spot on 8)
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Exactly, why would anyone want to eat seaweed???
I'd rather have 50-60 years of enjoying what i eat over 100+ years of seaweed lol
You might not live to 50 or 60 either.....
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You might not live to 50 or 60 either.....
Actually, some seaweed salads they serve are pretty good.
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its gone down by 1 year why is this noteworthy
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its gone down by 1 year why is this noteworthy
Exactly. And life expectancy uses infant mortality in the equation.
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The 2011 Fukushima accident will put the kibosh on that. Many people will develop horrible cancers. You'll never hear about it on MSM.
Nope, seaweed like kelp/iodine helps & they consume a lot of it ............
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WW2 Nazi colony on Schwaben land in Antarctica is outgunning everyone , ;) ;D
Little bit too cold , but ........fish food mostly :)
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Exactly. And life expectancy uses infant mortality in the equation.
Which brings up another interesting variable, a lot of those countries give about 1/3 of the vaccines USA does
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/bin/10.1177_0960327111407644-fig2.jpg)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/
33 doses by age 1 for USA, 11 for Japan
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Exactly. The U.S. has increased the number of vaccines over the last few decades that do not need to be given. We have an immune system for a reason.
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Nope, seaweed like kelp/iodine helps & they consume a lot of it ............
Nope... the seaweed and kelp are now contaminated with huge amounts of radioactive nucleotides: plutonium, cesium, strontium, uranium, iodine and other goodies. Don't eat seafood, especially tuna.
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Nope... the seaweed and kelp are now contaminated with huge amounts of radioactive nucleotides: plutonium, cesium, strontium, uranium, iodine and other goodies. Don't eat seafood, especially tuna.
Some of my favorite fish are the most toxic ones. I still eat lots of fish but I vary them and pay attention to
the information that is available on them, although that information can be sketchy and not so reliable. The best are the smaller, oily fish but you need to reduce the amount of those when you are cutting and reducing fat intake. Then it becomes tougher with evaluating the whiter type fish.
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Nope... the seaweed and kelp are now contaminated with huge amounts of radioactive nucleotides: plutonium, cesium, strontium, uranium, iodine and other goodies. Don't eat seafood, especially tuna.
Sea Jungles of kelp kelp around Tasmania , visit Australia 1st, then talk.
Many countries import kelp from Australia , including Japan ;)
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Believe me: north and south are two different animals. In the north life, work, hospitals, schools are quite similar to the German model.
Juve,Juve,Juve ............... ;D
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Juve,Juve,Juve ............... ;D
Good one IRON :)
Honestly I was thinking no one in US could know about this children's sport. People are crazy about it here unfortunately.
And neglect the art of the soiled thong ;D
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Good one IRON :)
Honestly I was thinking no one in US could know about this children's sport. People are crazy about it here unfortunately.
And neglect the art of the soiled thong ;D
Australia ;) , I was in Thailand in the last July at the World Cup time & was football maddens too ...................
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Nope... the seaweed and kelp are now contaminated with huge amounts of radioactive nucleotides: plutonium, cesium, strontium, uranium, iodine and other goodies. Don't eat seafood, especially tuna.
:D
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/8/85/Fugu_-_Blowfish.png/revision/latest?cb=20121216013139)
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:D
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puffer fish australia
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Good one IRON :)
Honestly I was thinking no one in US could know about this children's sport. People are crazy about it here unfortunately.
And neglect the art of the soiled thong ;D
Yes, hardly ever a muscle Magazine on those outdoor newsstands in Italy. But I did see some big boys over there.
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Yes, hardly ever a muscle Magazine on those outdoor newsstands in Italy. But I did see some big boys over there.
Italy has a big passion for everything that is mentzeresque. I would say a good 70% of guys in the gym are doing heavy duty.
Never understood the exact reason.
Oh by the way... Back in my days as a teen you could only find one bb magazine and it was usually put in the porn section. I kid u not ;D
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Italy has a big passion for everything that is mentzeresque. I would say a good 70% of guys in the gym are doing heavy duty.
Never understood the exact reason.
Oh by the way... Back in my days as a teen you could only find one bb magazine and it was usually put in the porn section. I kid u not ;D
Italian VIGOR !.
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Yes, hardly ever a muscle Magazine on those outdoor newsstands in Italy. But I did see some big boys over there.
That was me in Bologna at Trofeo due Torri 8)
Fantastically design (metal) trophies at Trofeo ;)
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That was me in Bologna at Trofeo due Torri 8)
Fantastically design (metal) trophies at Trofeo ;)
That's the most important bb competition here! When you took part? Did you place well?