How do i square this finding with the supposed increasing obesity epidemic in America?
He also practically changed no bad habits after the heart attack. We have got better when the heart attack happens and better at keeping people alive who want to eat pizza and drink beer all the time.
Currently, the top 5 causes of death in the US are, in descending order, heart disease, cancer, COVID, accident, and stroke. If you could wave a magic wand and make it so that nobody ever died of heart disease anymore, those people would still die eventually of something else. So, curing 100% of all heart disease would actually cause more people to die of cancer, COVID, accident, stroke, etc.
A lot of people dont want their idols to be associated “with drugs” but thats just childish at this point
https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd....
Hydrogenated margerine was just heading out the door 20 years ago. The cohort who lived off it probably had their heart attacks by now.
(I don't think "i can't believe its not butter" caused the heart attacks, I just point out there's been wider societal changes than just smoking: Exercise is trendy again, and TV has got crap so people do less couch time than they used to)
I'm sure the real science here is good. If they say it's smoking, and they ran the numbers, I'd believe them.
You know, it says "smoking" in a sentence which says "and other factors" to me. The truly interesting thing is the variance in survival rates between POC and white America has reduced. Thats really good. Because survival is about improved treatment and detection. It may mean a POC harming bias in social/medical services and access to quality healthcare has improved, or that their income levels have aligned more with mainstream america and so the health improvement is about lifestyle lift.
Is it a last 20 year development? I remember people going to the gym in the '90s. Step aerobics anyone?
If you were gym old in the 90s, and lived on tater tots smothered in lard, chain smoked and drank sprite out of a bucket, you were the cohort who did die over the next 30 years.
Mr Kurtz, he dead. (Marlon Brando wouldn't have known a Gym after the waterfront)
I dont know, but today we do see quite a few men of prime heart attack age in their 50s who are absolutely Jeff Bezos jacked.
Increased fitness and decreased smoking in most groups seems to explain the results.
Do they do less couch time? I’d have guessed that streaming/on-demand services and mobile phone usage at home have well more than made up for what traditional TV has lost.
This is not true at all. Sedentary time increased to all time highs to 12hrs/day and 3/4 of population is obese.
An economist minded colleague said if you want to reduce end of life costs in healthcare then encourage smokers over 45 to puff more not less and remove the problem faster.
This data comes from a book by Chris Knobbe, MD studying consumption of different fats. It is supposed to be released this month not sure if it has yet. Blaming saturated fats has basically been a complete lie IMO.
Now those same types of people sit in F-150s and use laptops to control heavy machinery.
Fitness is worse, but risk for a single catastrophic event is less.