Heaven forbid life expectancy factors be TWO things!
Obviously easy access to healthcare AND a non corn syrup based diet are important factors in determining longevity.
Edit: Does anyone know what this category of logical fallacy is called? Basically the fallacy where a person incorrectly tries to attribute an outcome to a single cause.
In East Texas the further one is away from Houston the less their life expectancy. We all eat the same stuff, I think. The difference maxes out to 5 years average less per person, near Louisiana, but if you look at the actuary stats it’s a straight line correlation between medical center distance and how long we live, on average
This honestly is repeated for many states in the USA. The metro areas have same life expectancies as Europe and Japan, but it’s balanced out by rural lack of access and fewer preventative cares.
It is a lot easier to survive a heart attack and stroke if you can reach a hospital or comparable medical service in a reasonable amount of time.
Look up food deserts and reconsider whether urban and rural citizens in America have the same diet.
Food deserts do exist in many places, but majority of people in my area need vehicle access to get any groceries, or work. One usually does not walk down to the local dollar general.
And with vehicles come access to real grocery stores
Causal oversimplification is a specific kind of false dilemma where conjoint possibilities are ignored.
It’s good that the reply with someone repeating the joke was included in the Facebook screenshot and it’s even better that this Twitter screenshot includes someone else repeating the joke
Tbf diet is a factor, too. Not living in a food desert is a huge plus.
But seriously, the Mediterranean Diet is also a thing discussed in Europe while the north is wealthier and has better social security. Still, no one recommends the Scandinavian Diet or living without sunlight in winter. I still value the post as a meme. I don’t want to be the actually guy but just provide some context.
Didn’t someone prove that these statistics are all thrown off by pension fraud?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/blue-zones-supercentenarians
This is what I was remembering. The “blue zones” that supposedly have much longer life spans also coincidentally are rife with pension fraud.
More so, we can replicate those diets and not see anything like the changes people claim come from just changing the diet.
The answer is and has always been “we’re all forced to work ourselves into early graves.” We can replicate everything except not working 80% of you adult awake hours, to be allowed to live.
As a culture, we just don’t have the courage to deal with that.
Infant mortality is a big reason our life expectancy is so low. Which is connected to how hard it is to see a doctor for lower income people.
Somebody I know was watching that TV show with Zac Efron claiming the people in an Itallian Village lived longer. I looked it up and that whole area has a lower percentage of elderly than average EU nations.