Study released this week reports most states are failing in women’s health. What can be done about it?
August 27, 2011 by admin
Filed under health care
Most U.S. states have made little progress toward improving women’s health and many have fallen behind, a new 50-state report released this week showed. The study had evaluated 27 measures of women’s health, ranging from the rates of routine screening tests for breast & colon cancer to obesity and access to health care. The benchmarks were based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 initiative.
“Overall the nation’s grade was ‘unsatisfactory.’ Only three of the 27 benchmarks were met,” Dr. Michelle Berlin of the Oregon Health & Science University told a briefing. No state received a passing or “satisfactory” grade for women’s health status. Twelve states failed outright, up from six states in the 2004 report. The remaining states received “unsatisfactory” marks.
States reported to be failing in women’s health:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1735373920071017?pageNumber=3
http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=3140§ion=newsroom
Women have longer life expectancies than men. What about the men?
At any rate, I have been studying up on food and nutrition. People obsessively count calories, and carbs, and fat grams–but they don’t bother with the rest of the label.
There are all sorts of chemicals in our food. Soy is known to slow down the thyroid, for example. MSG fattens you. Aspartame is a known neurotoxin (which New Mexico tried to ban). And aspartame is a carcinogen.
If you can eat a diet that keeps processed food to a minimum or better yet avoids it, then you’ll be healthier. Also lay off the diet pop.
This is the nation devoted to capitalism. Some seem to expect that one economic system to take care of everything. Hence, no health care for those who are not employed by an entity that can provide health insurance or those who are so destitute the government will provide some minimal care. There are millions of people, men, women and children (remember the shrubs veto of child health care?) who are without health care. Oh, and should you be one of those unfortunate enough to have a mental illness,well you’ll suffer all your life and not receive effective help.
This is not a gender issue, it’s a national tragedy for all categories of people.