The best and the worst health in the world - solutions

The best and the worst health in the world - solutions

In this third and final article of the series that can be found at the site www.unineuro.com.br, we want to address the reasons why France, Italy, Spain and Greece have greater health than Britain, Canada and USA. Also the reasons why Brazil is worse than countries of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and even that Paraguayans and Peruvians. These were the results of a new classification of the World Health Organization, using DALE, an index that measures the number of healthy years of the population of a country, rather than simply measuring the lifetime, as was done until now. Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the Global Program for Evidence and Health Policy, says: "The U.S. position is one of the biggest surprises of the new classification system. Basically, you die earlier and spend more time disabled in U.S. than in other developed countries. The reasons why the U.S. came so poorly due partly to the conditions of minorities who live in big cities, but also the rates of coronary heart disease are higher in the U.S. than in European countries. "

The BBC compared the ancient rivals, Great Britain and France, and concluded that the English eat in a hurry. Its national dish is fish and potatoes in the pub on the corner, so fried industry. But the French argue about hours about what to put in a salad, how many minutes will you use the oven for that meal and the age of the duck and fry almost nothing. French food is homemade, they eat what they themselves do. It seems that the most time a nation passes preparing its food, the better it’s the health of the nation.

Is the common point the Mediterranean culture? Their age, their values, the survival through the centuries, does the sun heats up their souls? The Mediterranean countries of Africa and the Middle East stand out in DALE, the number of years the average population lives on health. Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey and Cyprus are placed relatively well, considering that the first 4 are Africans, and Israel and Lebanon are technically in Asia. Except for Turkey and Israel the other countries to the south of the Mediterranean are very, very hard but, poor, backward and less industrialized that Brazil, and has a similar expectation of healthy life.

All this reasoning stops at the champions of all health statistics, the Japanese. Goes by water below the hot weather, and apparently, the care with the food, with the soul and with happiness. But apparently, for those who know, the kitchen of the japanese its even more careful and detailed than the Mediterranean. Anyone who has been there has been astonished by the number of people who fill the streets, the restaurants and the Jumbo 747 used in their domestic flights. And with the number of smokers. The only neurosurgeons smokers and most doctors knew that smokers are Japanese. But people were more friendly and hospitable, despite the cultural barrier imposed on his way to go with white gloves, with the direction of the right side, putting the visitors in the back seat, with their homes, clothes and food. What is the common place then? My impression is that the common point between cultures that have more health beginning of this millennium is a stable staff and the group to which the person belongs. The clan, the family group, and the institutions that safeguard. The so-called "extended families" that the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic contempt.

Expectations of healthy life: Advanced Countries
LDCs

Japan - 74.5 years
France - 73.1
Italy - 72.7
Spain - 72.8
Greece - 72.5
Norway - 71.7
Canada - 72.1
Great Britain - 71.7
Israel - 70.4
USA - 70
Cyprus - 69.8 years
Turkey - 62.9 years
Algeria - 61.6
Tunisia - 61.4
Lebanon - 60.6
Libya - 59.3
Morocco - 59.1
Brazil - 59.1
Egypt - 58.5
Kazakhstan - 56.4

I can not imagine a great-grandmother Greek or Japanese in a gym mat and calculating the calories before eating a sandwich of Mc Donalds, see what you choose, as recommended by the "Special Edition" of Newsweek for the fall and winter of 2001, which explores in depth scientific and typically American the biology of aging, the cures of tomorrow, memory and mood, the diet and exercise that "really work." With the minimum economic conditions, and social policies, the great-grandparents want to take care of their offspring, even the most rebellious, and have success in this mission if the institutions protecting this type of initiative. Only the profit that this environment brings in infant mortality is phenomenal for the statistics of WHO. Imagine then for people with mental and neurological problems during childhood and adolescence, as manias and depressions, schizophrenia, epilepsy and over-intelligence, which can lead to accidents, violence, crime and drug addiction.

The same structure of ancient clans, with clearly defined rules and protection of its members, exists in Greece, Italy, Spain, and to a lesser extent, France and the Nordic countries. In Norway, all are cousins of all. In Northern Europe clans are smaller, they have fewer children, but still protect and are protected by the institutions. U.S. and Brazil do the same, but at the expense of others, taking of the next, jealous of the next, because the institutions are weak, the rules are thin, the battle of classes is fierce and corruption is sacred. It should be much more calm to live in Kazakhstan, there in the middle of Asia, with an identity meaning Gengo-Khan, Stalin means, in an arid place, which only serves to get tumbling with Russian rockets in space, but they do have a healthy lifestyle not far from Brazil.