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With death rate up, US life expectancy is likely down again

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#1 ·
Is the problem the healthcare system or the population not being diligent in taking care of themselves?


NEW YORK -- The U.S. death rate rose last year, and 2017 likely will mark the third straight year of decline in American life expectancy, according to preliminary data.

Death rates rose for Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, flu and pneumonia, and three other leading causes of death, according to numbers posted online Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20180523/news/305239878
 
#3 ·
Sadly, the average American diet is loaded with fats and oils, salt, meat, processed sugar, and processed foods, and low on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. This finding does not surprise me at all.
Not to surprised either, it's just surprises me at times that with all the information that it is getting worse.
 
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Sadly, the average American diet is loaded with fats and oils, salt, meat, processed sugar, and processed foods, and low on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Add, this to the fact that many Americans get very little exercise. No, this finding does not surprise me at all.
I agree. The American diet is overly processed and most unhealthy, and so many simply over eat the wrong things.
 
#5 ·
This is concerning, from the article.

Just as important, there was little change in the death rate from the nation's No. 1 killer: heart disease. In the past, steady annual drops in heart disease death rates offset increases in other causes. But that offset is no longer happening, experts say.
 
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In my opinion, the "typical" fat and meat centric diet, the lack of exercise (sometimes forced on by to much work to make a living) and the horrible, way to expensive and messed up health system in combination making this a real problem.
Not sure when or why health care was allowed to become a profit business, but since it is, it is just going down
 
#14 ·
Part of the problem is the cost, even with decent insurance.

Friend went for her checkup (healthy person), at the time she mentioned to her doc she thought she had a sinus problem. Doc checked and agreed, wrote her a couple of scripts for antibiotics and decongestant. Doc set her up with and appointment with ENT, he wanted an MRI and allergy tests. More time off from work and deductibles. Recommended she see a neurologist, reason just in case, by this time she was disgusted by the whole process and refused. After all the run around from doc to doc, time off and paying multiple deductibles. Her tests came back great, simply a sinus infection and easily treated, no allergies to speak of.



Seems docs are up selling tests and referrals, in simple illnesses. IMHO
 
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I don't think it's so much that Drs are up selling as it covering their butts. I recently said no to a whole body scan for osteoporosis, and was told that was fine but they had to ask because I was over 55.
 
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Yep, she caught on to the game after the MRI and said no more. By the way she is in her late twenties without much experience with healthcare or insurance. Her primary care doc's office called twice about follow up appointments, which she declined. She is still getting new bills from doc's she didn't see and fighting with insurance about paying them. She has pretty much lost faith in the medical field and insurance companies. As one of the others in our group said, hard expensive lesson.
 
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