"[email hidden] (Larry Weisenthal)" <[email hidden]> wrote in part:
Quoted message said:A study was published recently in JAMA (referenced
below) which showed that the incidence of diabetes is
twice as high in the US as in Great Britain, and that
more than 80% of the difference has nothing to do with
obesity, per se. It's like Campos and other obesity
neo-revisionists have been claiming; it's possible to
be obese and relatively healthy, but it requires
physical fitness. The Brits get vastly more daily
exercise from their daily lives than do we Americans;
this is clearly the most important factor in their
enjoyment of superior health...
Hi Larry. Nice to see you posting.
I had posted on this same topic in sci.med.cardiology and got not a single
response. (My post was titled, "Does your neighborhood have sidewalks?"😉
Certainly the overwhelming need in the US is to get away from our pervasive
dependence on cars. Not everyone will work out at a gym; it is going to take
some fundamental societal changes to get most people moving under their own
power again.
Maybe when gasoline reaches $7/gallon, people will start demanding sidewalks
so they can walk a few blocks to buy bread. I imagine that is coming and
that the price of oil may turn out to help us by halting the epidemic in
diabetes and related illness.
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Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA [email hidden]