China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data - Sensationalist Headlines

GENEVA (Reuters) - China has overtaken the United States in healthy life expectancy at birth for the first time, according to World Health Organization data. Chinese newborns can look forward to 68.7 years of healthy life ahead of them, compared with 68.5 years for American babies, the data - which relates to 2016 - showed. American newborns can still expect to live longer overall - 78.5 years compared to China’s 76.4 - but the last 10 years of American lives are not expected to be healthy. “The lost years of good health that are a factor in calculating healthy life expectancy at birth are lower for China, Japan, Korea and some other high income Asian countries than for high income ‘Western’ countries,” said WHO spokeswoman Alison Clements-Hunt. Source

Eat shitty food, take no time off, have a shit healthcare, die a shitty death while in debt to the hospital.

it's not hard to overtake a collective group if you teach your own how to better themselves although in china's case their person of interest esque monitoring might as well be forcing them to comply

except this falls flat when you compare it to the entire list, US is #43 in life expectancy with places like the entirety of the EU/UK and canada overshadowing us by years.

I seem to remember that Switzerland has one of the highest life expectancies, but I may be wrong there. America has an extremely unhealthy diet and this is well-known. Just watch this to see what sort of ads US TV has on food... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCG_i9lnBFc

Life expectancies in the 70s always struck me as shockingly low in so called 'first world' nations. Not to mention the number of people that are barely living in their last 5-10 years.

It’s not hard to overtake the country that invented the trash known as “fast food”

You would be correct about Switzerland. WHO 2015 data released in 2016 says that Switzerland had the second highest life expectancy in consideration of both sexes (e.g. Singapore actually has a higher life expectancy for women but has 10th highest life expectancy for men, which Switzerland is leading in at 81.3 years). Remember, that's an average. When life expectancy is adjusted for health etc., Switzerland falls a bit but is still much better than the rest of Europe, never mind the US.

Fragmented healthcare caused this. The focus on Allopathic solutions combined with capitalism means HMO's just want to sell you products without curing you, just making you better while developing more chronic diseases and using bullshit ways to make sure you don't actually get care while paying for insurance.

Notbreally;there are plenty of things our brilliant country like doing like not caring about pollutants which has a huge effect on health.