According to 10 years of national data, foreign-born adults -- particularly younger, have significantly lower risks of mortality than US-born residents regardless of income, education, occupation, marital status and place of residence.
Despite higher poverty rates and lower rates of health insurance coverage, immigrants do better than their US-born counterparts. This is perhaps suggestive of the positive role of cultural values, attitudes, practices and lifestyle characteristics.
People who migrate to the US may be healthier are likely to be related to diet.
Most people don't realize that
90% OF MONEY
AMERICANS SPEND ON FOODS
GOES TOWARD...
PROCESSED FOODS.
Forsaking healthy, home-cooked meals, more Americans than ever are gorging on calorie-rich, nutrient-poor snacks, sodas and sweets when the dinner bell rings, according to three studies tracking changes in the U.S. diet over the past 25 years.
In every age group, more and more Americans now consume a large proportion of their daily food intake via snacks rather than sit-down meals, favoring quick, easy -- often non-nutritious -- foods like potato chips, cookies, pizza and other high-calorie treats.
Meanwhile, global cancer rates have doubled in the last three decades, and their "war on cancer" strategy completely ignores, and oftentimes denies the obvious links between cancer and toxic exposures through
PESTICIDE-LADEN FOOD
TOXIC PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
CANCER-CAUSEING MEDICAL TREATMENTS
DRUGS & INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION.
This despite the fact that we know far more about these influences today than ever before in history—in fact, there is evidence suggesting that cancer is a recent MAN-MADE disease caused primarily by toxic overload.
The proportion of energy from restaurant/fast food has increased considerably since the late 1970s. Among 19 to 39 year-olds, away-from-home food consumption just about doubled.
28% of young Americans saying they had eaten out ON ANY GIVEN DAY, compared to just 14% two decades previously.
All this info can be applied to Autoimmune Diseases as well.
The most common description of autoimmune disease is that it is a condition that occurs when the "body attacks itself". This definition doesn't even begin to encompass what autoimmunity really is. This disease is much more than inflammation caused by body "attacking itself".
The fact is that an autoimmune condition doesn't just "happen" to you. It is both passively and actively created by your lifestyle and the greedy practices of food manufacturers, who lace your meals with toxins. You eat, drink, and expose your way to immune dysfunction. With little exception, everything you put into your mouth, your surroundings, and even the air you breathe is either making you healthier or sicker.
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This is an excruciating info and I am the living evidence of all that.
If I could educate at least one soul with it - I'll consider my work is done.
For one day.
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Resources:
http://www.squidoo.com/list_of_autoimmune_diseases
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/03/10/immigrants.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2002/05/08/junk-food-part-one.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/24/american-cancer-society--more-interested-in-wealth-than-health.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/26/junk-food-marketing.aspx
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