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True Dough

(17,331 posts)
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 09:24 AM Sep 2016

America does need to be "great again" in some respects

A massive study reported on in the Lancet shows areas where the U.S. has slid and needs to make significant improvement.

Iceland and Sweden share the top slot with Singapore as world leaders when it comes to health goals set by the United Nations, according to a report published in the Lancet. Using the UN’s sustainable development goals as guideposts, which measure the obvious (poverty, clean water, education) and less obvious (societal inequality, industry innovation), more than 1,870 researchers in 124 countries compiled data on 33 different indicators of progress toward the UN goals related to health.

The massive study emerged from a decadelong collaboration focused on the worldwide distribution of disease. About a year and a half ago, the researchers involved decided their data might help measure progress on what may be the single most ambitious undertaking humans have ever committed themselves to: survival. In doing so, they came up with some disturbing findings, including that the country with the biggest economy (not to mention, if we’re talking about health, multibillion-dollar health-food and fitness industries) ranks No. 28 overall, between Japan and Estonia.







http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/america-is-not-the-greatest-country-on-earth-it-s-no-28
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America does need to be "great again" in some respects (Original Post) True Dough Sep 2016 OP
Did you start a go fund me "give me a dollar or I'll vote for tRump?" lonestarnot Sep 2016 #1
And is your username indicative of how tightly you're wound? True Dough Sep 2016 #2
 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
1. Did you start a go fund me "give me a dollar or I'll vote for tRump?"
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 09:39 AM
Sep 2016

What's your fucking point? America has some warts. We can fix it when we break the pug obstruction stranglehold they've had on America for years.

True Dough

(17,331 posts)
2. And is your username indicative of how tightly you're wound?
Thu Sep 22, 2016, 11:35 AM
Sep 2016

You missed the "k" in knot.

Take a chill pill and try again, bub.

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