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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.
Yes but life expectancy has been rising in those countries despite worse diets and obesity rising. So it seems access to healthcare is a stronger factor.
It is not two things, it is several things. Life expectancy in the US is lower mainly because of one thing though.
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.
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
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.
Yes, that too, but the way it was explained to me is that high blood pressure, diabetes and easy to diagnose diseases which make up the majority. All solved by regular checkups
Reductionism? Oversimplification?
Einstein supposedly said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"