The Medical Freedom Channel

“You can add Canadians to the list of foreigners who are healthier than Americans. Americans are 42 percent more likely than Canadians to have diabetes, 32 percent more likely to have high blood pressure and 12 percent more likely to have arthritis, Harvard Medical School researchers found. That is according to a survey in which American and Canadian adults were asked over the telephone about their health. The study comes less than a month after other researchers reported that middle-age White Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in England.” [editor’s note: Yes, and the alternative view of that result (that it has more to do with our medical reporting rates and overtesting, than with actual ailments) has already been published here. - SAT] (05/31/06)