Obesity, Diabetes, Influenza and Neoliberalism ... all together
Just to give us a slight idea of \u200b\u200bwhy the fucking flu hit more in Mexico than anywhere else, take the case of diabetes.
"In Mexico, every hour are detected 38 new cases of diabetes.
"According to official figures, the disease increased more than 30 times in the second half of the century. For example, in 1955 there were 1500 deaths from this cause, while in 2000 there were approximately 47,814 deaths. In relative terms, their proportional contribution to the country's mortality increased from 0.4 percent to more than ten percent, so become the third leading cause of death in Mexico.
"According to data from the National Health and Nutrition 2006 1 of 3 Mexicans are overweight or obesity among adolescents is repeated the same effect, ie more than five million obese youngsters.
is more, Agustin Carstens, is our great Heavyweight. Coincidentally
no longer speaks of "a week lost" or even "a month, speaks of a trismetre lost.
Well, 30 years of neoliberalism and privatization will not result could be nothing more than that. We
to the mother.
PS: remember that in Mexico, each year 14 000 people die traffic accidents. (Is it not time to ban cars and begin to discuss their usefulness?)
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