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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what's wrong with statins.  In my experience anyone who is ranting about statins is an uninformed dotard or some "big pharma" conspiracy theorist.[/quote]

Yep. Life expectancy is up since statins were introduced in the 80s. Thank god.[/quote]
[b]We have the worst heart disease in the world. Why? [/b]Pharma profits.[/quote]

Sedentary lifestyles, streets without sidewalks, roads designed for cars, junk food subsidized at higher rates than healthy food, long work hours combined with long commutes, food deserts, so many things really.

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All those can be shrunk down to one thing.  It's not knowledge.  It's will power.

I'm not blaming sidewalks.  Whole foods are available.  The whole world does it. No more excuses.[/quote]

Why wouldn’t we want a society where being healthy is the easier choice, not the harder one? [/quote]

It’ll never be the easier choice unless it’s the only one. At one point in history, we didn’t have all this shelf stable industrially produced food. At that time, people consumed fresh food because it was the only option - except canned foods, which were canned vegetables and other things that were not industrially processed. None of that is the same thing as the processed garbage that has inundated the world.

Keeping up with buying, preparing, and eating fresh real food is a huge pain in the ass. Regardless of where you are in the world. A worthwhile one, but a pain in the ass for sure. [/quote]

Eating fresh foods has to be made a priority, I don't know if it is such a PITA. It is a skill that gets much easier with practice.  It helps to eat more simply. Think about how easy it would be, for example, to just drink water only as the sole beverage for meals. It is the healthiest option after all.[/quote]

I don’t have to think about drinking only water because I only drink water at meals. Keeping up with buying and preparing fresh food is not easy. We do it, but many people just won’t do it. Go to Harris Teeter and look at the volume of shelf stable things in boxes and ask yourself realistically if the average person is going to navigate around that to prepare their own meals. The answer is they won’t. And that’s a worldwide phenomenon. 
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