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Old 05-02-2009, 05:39 AM   #492
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Originally Posted by Harmon View Post
Longevity is primarily a function of genetic heritage, diet, and exercise. Health care has very little to do with those things, and so anyone who links them doesn't know what he's talking about. Anyone who bothers to think for a minute will understand that. I don't feel like wasting time on willfully ignorant people.
I wonder how you could substantiate this allegation.

The following graph comes from the "Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Enviroment and Energy". They use longlivety as one logical interlinkage indicator between social (eg. healthcare) and economic (eg. growth rate) indicators.



The full essay ("Sustainability indicators - A compass on the Road Towards Sustainability") is available at: http://www.wupperinst.org/de/publika...itrag/WP81.pdf.

Now you might wonder why a well known scientific institute can be so ignorant and dumb to think healthcare could have something to do with longlivety...
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