Jerusalem – Israel is the 10th healthiest country in the world — 54 spots ahead of the United States.
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The Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, published Sunday, ranked 169 nations based on factors such as life expectancy and access to sanitation and medical care. Countries were penalized for tobacco use and obesity, among other health risks.
Unsurprisingly, the Mediterranean diet — common in Israel, as well as Spain and Italy, numbers one andn two on the list — was noted in Bloomberg’s analysis.
“Mediterranean diet, supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts, had a lower rate of major cardiovascular events than those assigned to a reduced-fat diet,” says a study cited by Bloomberg.
The rest of the top 10, in order, are: Spain, Italy, Iceland, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Singapore and Norway.
The U.S. placed 64th, largely in part to its high obesity rate. Recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control estimate about 40 percent of the country, or over 93 million citizens, are obese.
Interesting, but I see so many fat and very over weight charadim in Israel, also many non religious fat slobs too.
But the Israeli health care is much better than the US’s (Israel was built by Socialists and health care was a corner stone; where as US is capitalistic so no one cares about the poor’s health problems.)
Israelis also have a higher rate of smoking than Americans, and their dental care is not the greatest. Therefore, I can’t understand how this survey ranked them so high?
Israelis and Eurpeans and Canadians eat much more veggies and fruits than Americans.