https://www.studyfinds.org/1-in-5-americans-heart-health/
A staggering 80 percent of the U.S. population has either low or moderate cardiovascular health — meaning just one in five people have a heart that’s in excellent shape, according to a new study.
Using the American Heart Association’s new Life’s Essential 8 checklist, researchers discovered that just 19.6 percent of the country has a cardiovascular health score which the checklist considers “high.”
Meanwhile, the study of more than 23,400 U.S. adults and children found 62.5 percent only have “moderate” cardiovascular health and 17.9 percent have “low” cardiovascular health.
The Life’s Essential 8 looks at eight essential components that combine to give someone ideal heart and brain health. The measures include diet, physical activity, nicotine exposure, sleep duration, body mass index, blood lipids, blood glucose, and blood pressure. The new scale is an upgrade from the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7, which did not measure sleep health.
When looking at the differences between the country’s racial and ethnic groups, the study finds Asian Americans have the best average cardiovascular health scores. Non-Hispanic White individuals had the second-highest health scores, with Hispanics (not including Mexicans), Mexicans, and Non-Hispanic Black individuals following in that order.
Concerningly, children’s diet scores had an average of just 40.6 and a miniscule 0.45 percent of the entire study group achieved a perfect score of 100.
This is shocking! Everyone knows Americans are the epitome of exceptionalism. I mean, look at how well the children are doing on their diet scores. The future looks bright.... and obese.
Luckily, Science! will find a way to give everyone pig hearts so Americans can continue their gluttonous ways. That's how Science! works: it doesn't correct the problem, it fixes it. Plus, there won't be enough healthy hearts from donors to keep up with the demand.
And, we can't forget that if it gets too bad, the establishment will step in because they care about our health so much. So if pig hearts don't work, they'll come up with pills or vaccines. Or maybe even put something in the water like they do with fluoride that will fix our hearts, or ramp up our metabolism. Nah, that's too 20th century. They will just give everyone a mRNA vaccine that alters the obesity gene.
Diet and exercise would obviously drastically change the cardiovascular health of Americans, but there are taboo social ramifications that come with that. For example, telling black people to quit eating fried chicken is racist. Or telling a fat woman who eats too much fast food that she is "fat" is fat shaming. And hurting people's feelings is way worse than being fat with a bad heart.
It is interesting that the study was broken down by ethnic and racial groups. It's 2022, and I just figured we were beyond that. But blacks came in last place, which is certainly because of slavery or systemic racism or whatever.
Diversity is our strength, so highlighting that blacks and Mexicans have scored the lowest on heart health makes you wonder what the numbers would look like if we excluded their data. It's kinda similar for a lot of things, tbh. Diversity is our strength, but every time it's calculated into the equation it appears to be a weakness.
It would have been interesting to see the racial/ethnic breakdown of the 20% that have excellent heart health. I suspect the results would illustrate white supremacy or white privilege or whatever term they're using nowadays to make white people feel bad about themselves, and the Asian element would just kinda be ignored.
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