Re:Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?
by sn9 on Sunday July 31, 2022 @05:35AM
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The recommended strategies aren't being taken by patients.
Diet and exercise recommendations work in the overwhelming majority of people who actually follow them.
This is validated by mountains of research.
The reason we have such poor health outcomes in the US is because people have such terrible diets and sedentary lifestyles which are contrary to those recommendations. And as these lifestyle choices are being adopted in other countries, you see their populations starting to have similarly bad health outcomes of the same kind (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, etc.).
Diet and exercise recommendations work in the overwhelming majority of people who actually follow them.
This is validated by mountains of research.
The reason we have such poor health outcomes in the US is because people have such terrible diets and sedentary lifestyles which are contrary to those recommendations. And as these lifestyle choices are being adopted in other countries, you see their populations starting to have similarly bad health outcomes of the same kind (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, etc.).
All of this is extremely well-understood.