Article by Margot Sanger-Katz in the New York Times on the supposed "Cuban Health Paradox": http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/upshot/can-cuba-escape-poverty-but-stay-healthy.html?rref=upshot&smid=tw-upshotnyt&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0
There is not so much of a health paradox in Cuba.
It is by all accounts a poor country. It has basic healthcare, but the materialist consumerism of the West is missing. Therefore they have less lifestyle diseases caused by obesity, lack of exercise, urban stress.
The United Kingdom during the Second World War experienced severe rationing, and yet the population was far healthier than it is today.
There is not so much of a health paradox in Cuba.
It is by all accounts a poor country. It has basic healthcare, but the materialist consumerism of the West is missing. Therefore they have less lifestyle diseases caused by obesity, lack of exercise, urban stress.
The United Kingdom during the Second World War experienced severe rationing, and yet the population was far healthier than it is today.
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