r/europe Smugness Is Beyond Belief
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1jqcxr0/why_do_poor_people_in_western_europe_live_longer/
The survival rate for wealthy Americans was on par with the poorest people in northern and western Europe, and with eastern Europeans overall.
Poor Europeans can expect to live at least as long as rich Americans, and in some cases even longer, a new study has found.
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What's the cause? 100% pure slop-food? Tornadoes? Houses build on Native American burial grounds?
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We like to drink, drug, frick and have fun
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Obesity is like 50% of it, violence and car crashes is probably most of the remaining 50%
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Food is a large part of it. Local, fresh, seasonal and cheap.
I pay at least 50% less for better quality food in Germany compared to my local farmer's market in the Midwest.
Eating out at restaurants is also a ton cheaper.
I can have an appetizer, main course and desert with a beer for less than $30.
That's very rare to find in the States, where you have a 70% of a restaurant being just pure shit.
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What the heck is going on in the Midwest???
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I'm not shopping at Aldi sweaty.
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Most of us can and do take care of ourselves with gardens and shit, so the people going to farmers markets are smug urbanites rubes that are easy to rip off. If you drive the old 2 lane highways you'll pass a dozen houses selling eggs $3-4 a dozen, just pull in the driveway and honk. If you go to a farmers market they're like $8.
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Thought so.
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Yea I'm not buying anything from some "house" selling eggs in their driveway.
But you do you bb.
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Even our fatties live longer than Americans
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Why is that chart using a nonsensical arbitrary definition of lifespan? Wealthy Americans live longer than even the median "European" in Western Europe let alone the poor. Also, poor countries in Eastern Europe have a median lifespan lower than the American median.
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Just eating less
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And having more hot seeeeexxx
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Yes.
I moved to Germany and already gained 10 years added to my lifespan.
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Divine karma for being born american
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Fats
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