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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 14 Mar \ on: Americans Have Normalized Being Sick, We Forget What Being Healthy Is Like HealthAndFitness
I think the rest of the world is catching up to the US in terms of health, and so probably in terms of the use of pharmaceuticals. I've been to Mexico recently, my guess is that the rate of being overweight is roughly similar to in the US. And there's tons of junk food around everywhere.
Also, you know people are really unhealthy when mainstream ads, for regular people, feature people that are very overweight.
In Mexico City, all the Amazon Prime ads have as model a very overweight lady.
My recollection is that Mexico is one of the fatter countries. I wonder if it translates to the same rates of disease though. Perhaps they get more sun, physical activity, less exposure to weird food additives, etc.
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I will say one thing for Mexicans - one thing they DON'T do as much, is give their kids phones, at restaurants, to shut them up.
I was thinking approvingly of this, as I first noticed it. Then I saw a family with 2 kids in a restaurant, and both of the kids (around age 7 and 9) were watching 2 separate upright large tablets, and had their plates in front of the tablet.
I thought, disappointed, "well, so much for the whole 'Mexican's don't sedate their kids with screen time' theory".
But then I heard this family talking. And though they looked Mexican, they had obviously been in the US their whole lives, because they had zero accent.
So my theory stands. For the time being, anyway. There's still tons and tons of phone usage, just that particular case seems to be less common.
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