Dan Buettner:
The number one killer in America is our diet. We lose about 660,000 Americans prematurely to the way we eat. If we don’t take aim at that, these other things are more peripheral. In Singapore, which I dubbed ouzo 2.0, individuals cannot own guns. In America, we lost 55,000 people to gun deaths last year that dragged down the life expectancy. in Singapore they lost two, where they’re very tough on drugs in Singapore, I mean, if you could be put to death for selling drugs in Singapore.
But the other side of that equation, only 15 people died last year and drug overdoses, whereas we lost almost 110,000 Americans and drug overdoses last year of drug related deaths. So yes, there are lots of things on the fringes. But the big thing we need to take aim at is our diet. And until we get that squared away, the rest of the stuff is a rounding error.
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