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Also, if you own horses, you’re probably going out to take care of them on a daily basis, which means you get at least a little bit of mild exercise every day. That would help a lot, compared to people who are entirely sedentary.
Magical domesticated equine!
Here everyone can afford insurance since it’s mandatory and tied to your paycheck
In the civilized world, you don’t need to struggle for health care.
I guess the US is not a civilized world. Makes sense since they had “gladiator-like” fights on the South Lawn.
Can confirm, the US is definitely not a part of the civilized world.
I would change “health insurance” to “health care”. I have had better care when uninsured and negotiating prices in cash than when I had terrible health insurance I couldn’t afford to use and never got any care.
Horses whose owners have a yacht live longer
reality:
I dunno, I know a lot of people who can somehow only afford a horse. Maybe they are outliers
In my experience horse people tend to be like motorsports people. Usually it’s a family thing and the basic needs for entry into the hobby are already met by the generational involvement in the activity.
Or maybe they live somewhere with universal health care and don’t need health insurance?
10% of the US is millionaires and wealth is quite segregated by location so depending on where you grow up or live, it’s entirely possible to mostly only know rich people while most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck and a large amount of people can’t afford healthcare. It’s inequality again, yay
Just mentioning this because the thread itself and the person you responded about referred to the US. Not actually American myself.
Nah I live in America we don’t have healthcare here
Why is the word “causation” photoshopped on? What word was there originally that would have changed the meaning enough to warrant pasting a different word there?
OP replaced “correlation”
Joyful people live longest.
Healthy people who faced little suffering live longer?
Joyful people live longest.
Cancer is a real buzzkill
Jr researchers are using AI to comb through cancer research datanases and every time they come back with data linking racial minority to worse outcomes or faster tumor progression, and proposals to review genetic differences.
Never does it link that non rich people don’t go to a doctor unless it’s very bad, and so present at later stages of cancer, and can’t afford the better personalized treatments.
The entire world of dog cancer research has recently collapsed not because there aren’t researchers invested in the work or that there aren’t clinical trials available, it’s that dog owners can’t afford to even travel to clinical sites for treatment.
It’s heartbreaking
Never does it link that non rich people don’t go to a doctor unless it’s very bad, and so present at later stages of cancer, and can’t afford the better personalized treatments.
Also…
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Poor people are more likely to work in dangerous industrial jobs that expose them to carcinogens.
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Poor people are more likely to work outside, where they’re exposed to high levels of UV, causing skin cancers.
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Poor people are more likely to live in less desirable places, which may be located closer to industrial sites that spread carcinogenic waste into the air and water.
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Poor people are more likely to eat highly processed foods that increase cancer risk.
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Poor people are more likely to be obese, which increases cancer risk.
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Poor people are more likely to smoke and/or be exposed to second-hand smoke.
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Poor people are more likely to have high stress levels, which increases cancer risk.
There’s a million different non-genetic reasons why racial minorities (who tend to be poorer) would have higher cancer rates.
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This goes for all animals btw. Their company makes us live longer. Very well established research.
It goes for human companionship too. Humans live longer with company.
Is this an US joke I’m too European to get?
Owning and Maintaining a horse is expensive. So is private health insurance. Most Americans can’t afford either.
you don’t have horses in europe?
pretty sure you do, as you’re always winning dressage.
In the UK where everyone has decent basic health care on average you live 2 years shorter if you own a horse. It’s worse than riding a motorcycle (1 year shorter). It turns out that owning a big animal that will kick you if you look at it funny or throw you off if it gets startled by a packet of crisps in the road isn’t that great for your health.
I always thought horses could murder someone because that’s their idea of a good joke.
I’m not a horse person, but having been around several, my understanding is that horses don’t joke about that sort of thing. They take it very seriously indeed.
That, and, as the previous commenter said, get spooked by a rogue crisp packet, their own shadow, or the fact the sun has come up again.
We need a comprehensive study that compares health outcomes from getting your face kicked in, between the US and the UK.
I’ll just leave this right here.
camden does kinda sound like an out-of-this-world name now that i think about it
