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hazelrah wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/24/the-disease-killing-white-americans-goes-way-deeper-than-opioids/
Sometimes even fake news may be worth considering.
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openmind wrote:
Interesting that there is discussion of heart disease, but not discussion of diet.
I think an analysis will show middle aged whites with less than a college diploma eat more meat, dairy and junkfood.
Washington Post wrote:The pain in their bodies might reflect a “spiritual” pain caused by “cumulative distress, and the failure of life to turn out as expected.”
Risto wrote:My country suffered a financial crash and a severe recession in the beginning of the 1990s. Unemployment jumped to 20 % for a while. Some of the expected health problems and suicides didn't materialize - the rate of suicide has actually declined since 1990 - apparently because it was suddenly socially acceptable to be doing badly, and even to seek psychiatric help, because more or less everyone was in the same situation. The economy turned around quite quickly after that, so the experience is probably not comparable to e.g. an industrial town that has been in decline for decades.
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