This post summarizes a Harvard study on the top-12 preventable causes of death. (Click on the link for a picture that will drive the point home.) The causes, in order of badness, are: Smoking: 467,000 deaths. High blood pressure: 395,000 deaths. Overweight-obesity: 216,000 deaths. Inadequate physical activity and inactivity: 191,000 deaths. High blood sugar: 190,000 [...]
Sunday, September 27, 2009
This piece, which compares the health care to the air travel industries, pretty much puts in context everything about the ridiculousness of the current health care infrastructure. Very much worth reading. From Marginal Revolution.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Choose your failings carefully: It’s old news that the teen birth rate is much higher in more conservative US states, but a new study gets rid of some of the confounders like income and abortion rates in those states, and finds that the correlation is still there. “If we may speculate on the most probable [...]
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
I’ve been trying not to talk about health care lately, because the whole affair just gets me so worked up. When I imagine shoddy levels of care, overrun by government bureaucrats, like the sort they have to deal with in Europe: Unfortunately for celiac patients, the extra cost of a special diet is not reimbursed [...]
Here’s your public service announcement about eggs. The USDA will tell you that all eggs are created equal, just as all vegetables, whether organic or not, are equal. Somehow the output from a chicken doesn’t depend on the inputs in the USDA’s world, which is frankly a ridiculous assumption. It’s like a chicken is a [...]
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