Canadian are healthier than Americans

”You can add Canadians to the long list of foreigners who are healthier than Americans. Americans are 42 percent more vulnerable to diabetes than Canadians, thirty percent more susceptible to high blood pressure, and twelve percent are more likely to have arthritis.”

This is according to a survey in which adults from the both countries were asked in a health survey over the telephone. The study comes on heels of last month reports that middle aged white Americans are much sicker than their English counterparts in UK.

Just cross over to any midtown highway in US and you would find youngsters lazing around the streets, plenty of them suffering from obesity or looking gloomy, completely shadowed by depression. ”I don’t know where that shine has gone of their faces.” said a health expert. Most of Americans have admitted that their sedentary lifestyle the main reason behind their falling health scales.

"We're really falling behind other nations," said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, co-author of the Canadian study.
About twenty one percent American complained about weight gain, compared with fourteen percent Canadians. However, more Canadians were smokers - Nineteen percent, compared to about 17 percent of Americans.

About 42 percent of the Americans rated their quality of health care as excellent, while 39 percent of Canadians did. But Canadians have lower death rates from cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is mainly due to uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells on the inner walls of uterus that opens into vagina. Fortunately, when detected at an early stage, it can be easily cured by practicing a PAP test. About 92 percent of American women said they had a Pap test within the last five years, while 83 percent of Canadian women had.

The skyrocketing prices of medicines in US are forcing nearly twice as many Americans into saying that there were medicines in US but they couldn’t afford.

However, about 80 percent of Americans had a regular doctor, while 85 percent of Canadians did.