Why is life expectancy higher in the UK than in the US?
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That escalated quickly. I'm absolutely anti-American. No question about it. I don't like your empire. I'm also perfectly capable of saying that I think America sucks when I do.
I posted this because I was interested in what defenses people had to offer, because I'm not stupid enough to take media narratives at face value.
And most of the time in real life, when I'm talking to Europeans, I'm defending America - at least on domestic policy. Cause they say stuff like "Americans are in love with guns and that's crazy". I say, no, there are a lot of rural people who need guns for self-defense because they have to wait 2 hours on the police.
That should be a wash. It isn't though. I'm surprised no one made the argument that "people of British ancestry have similar/higher life expectancy in the US".
Right, but the extreme outlier of the US does worse than the extreme outlier of the UK. Why?
You're very angry as of late. Is anything happening? Regardless, I'm waiting for EU states with higher obesity than the US white population. I could not find them.
Well, you'll claim that I'm lying even when I'm telling you why I'm doing something, so why bother explaining myself?
The UK does not have any extreme outliers and we don't have data that granular for the UK. Scotland is over 8% of the UK population vs West Virginia being less than 0.5% of the US. Also Scotland is not an "extreme" outlier, it's just a little lower.
I'm not angry and you cannot discern my emotional state through an internet comment section. Accusing someone of being angry is typical Redditry. Shame on you.
Also this BS "oh wow, that escalated quickly my guy! I'm calm as a cucumber but you are clearly in poor control of your emotional faculties!" little game you're playing.
Nah, I'm going to be very straightforward with you: when I pick up on bad faith from someone replying to me, I throw elbows because my time is being wasted. It isn't emotional. Me being polite on the internet requires me to expend additional energy. I'm willing to spend that energy on people arguing in good faith. I shut it off when they are not.
I've looked it up in the past, so I know I'm right. The UK is one of the fattest euro countries, but the BMI stats from the US to various other countries are not as far apart as people like to think they are. Everyone who wants to exaggerate obesity uses things like "percent overweight" which grossly exaggerates disparities because 1 country might have a BMI of 27 and another 26, and yet the 27 have a far higher percentage of people considered "overweight" because it's an imaginary line and you're just counting people over it.
I just did a 1 minute google search and it is not data that is easy to find. No web site wants to tell me the BMI data in the US broken down by ethnic group, so I can't even begin to make any comparisons.
I've had this debate before on Reddit, I've done the deep dive and posted proof. I can't find shit from my old banned accounts and I can't re-google it. Maybe I could if I spent an hour on it, but I don't want to.
The place cited was not a country within the UK, but a city or a region within a city. So basically, the worst place in the UK in terms of life expectancy. I'd say that is even more granular than the US. The US only has 50 states, how many cities and towns does the UK have?
Will you stop taking offense at every little thing?
Inb4: YOU ARE ASSUMING I TOOK OFFENSE! Give it a rest!
Not playing any games.
You have no idea if they are or not. I'm interested in this topic, but you seem to think that it's me trying to bash the US. Like I told you, if I want to bash the US (which is very easy), I'll do it openly.
More than 2 in 5 non-Hispanic white adults (42.2%) have obesity.
Source: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity
Right you are.