@UChXJdGIIJ80g2onF2wxdnYw Most countries with public healthcare have free markets. However, people understand that consumer choice and competition don't work when the consumer is literally dying.
He is but he is also warning other nations to look at themselves or IF they have a good healthcare system, not to take it for granted. healthcare is one of those issue that people DO need to fight for actively because the descission makers are mostly wealthy and will always be able to afford healthcare and the primary agents of change, young people rebelling, are... young and may often undervalue healthcare as their body will take another 10-20 years before it starts turning on them. If you're strong and healthy... helathcare usually is not an issue you will give too much thought.
Next clickbait article: "The one trick for longevity world leaders don't want you to know about!" then the article says: "Socialized Access to Health Care. That's it. Period."
Nice timing on the video, Evan; I had my first real experience with the Australian healthcare system this week. On Monday night, around 9pm, I lacerated my hand in the kitchen. My wife drove me to the hospital, so I could get some stitches. An examination, x-ray, and some antibiotics later, I'm sent home with an appointment for the hand surgeon the next morning. My 1pm on Tuesday, I am on the operating table, having the (apparently far more serious damage than I had anticipated) fixed. I'm back home at 6pm. I have no private medical insurance. This entire venture, including the physiotherapy yet to come has cost me $0. Even the parking at the hospital was free. Or the hospital meal I ate 20 minutes before being discharged. Free. Yes, in the broader sense, I do pay for it with my taxes, but that's kind of the point: me being out of the Australian workforce, not paying taxes, or working at reduced capacity due to an unfixed hand costs the Australian economy more in the long run. Our healthcare system works. When I go back to work in a few days, I'll be living proof.
I would really love to see this as a PSA on every single American TV station.. there are so many myths about socialized medicine within the current zeitgeist of American culture it's insane. Maybe reshoot with pop's & the public would be brought back to earth (pun intended) about the whole debate.
It’s not just American media, while it is more of a culprit then the rest of the western world. The west as a whole likes to spread untrue myths about nearly everything.
Excuse me, purple sweet potatoes are absolutely amazing!!! Since moving to Hawaii any recipe that calls for potato we substitute for a purple sweet 🥔. We have had purple potato chips, purple mashed potatoes, purple fries, ECT. They can be made into desserts because they are delicious!!!
That's true, it got lumped in due to poor scripting. The Okinawan sweet potato is incredible. The point I was trying to make was instead just that food tourists only ever eat it here as a dessert. It isn't a health food if you're always eating it as a dessert.
So true. Whenever I go back to my home in China, I always try to bring a lot of purple sweet potato products with me when I leave again, because I just can't get enough of it back home, and can't get any of it in the US where I live.
my wife made me try some of those potato chips while we were in the hawaiian airlines airport lounge and i couldn't stop eating them. i was under the impression that they tasted like poi which i hate as much as goya but i really liked their subtle vegetable/potato flavor. I also really like those purple sweet potato tarts they sell here in okinawa too
I'm speechless. NEVER have I heard such impassioned reasons for socialized health care. Evan~Thank you. 40+ yr nurse (ret), Canadian. And when I think of the "american model" of for profit medical care, I could just weep, I have wept. Imagine having to tell a mother her insurance doesn't cover a life saving medicine, test or procedure for her child. Let that sink in. "You're child may/will die if we don't do this test/procedure/surgery~but your insurance won't cover it. It's probably about $20,000. Can you pay out of pocket? No? Well then I'm sorry. Take your child home to die. Because we can't treat her/him without being paid. Do you need your parking validated?" (
May I add that american healthcare system is a few times more expensive than that in european countries? Or in Japan or Canada. Much worse system for more money, insurance is much more expensive and dont cover up as many things.
But....but.... thats SOCIALISM! Which is the same as COMMUNISM. Which has killed tens of millions! And raised two giant medival rural nations to industrial superpowers in a few decades. . Cant have that!
Small quibble here I agree Canadian style healthcare is better, but people do NOT just get turned away like that, they are instead saddled with debt. Still not great, but no one is just getting turned out to die on the streets.
You're not exactly turned away, but then you think of the immediate need of a roof, food, etc vs. that medical treatment you should have to help you live longer. As an American who has moved to Japan partially because of the health system. It is a much better system here, even in Okinawa (poorest prefecture) Even when you can't fluently talk to the doctors. A couple of stitches, ER visit, Tetanus vaccine 2800yen. Checkup on that stitch was 280 yen. Less than $30.00! You can look up your home state costs for 3 stitches its often a few thousand. So people just dont go until absolutely necessary.
@@hanbanaroda Americans with good insurance receive about the best medicine in the world. A substantial minority of Americans have poor or no insurance, they drag down the averages. All Canadians have access to pretty good medicine, some Americans have access to amazing medicine.
The most sensible things I've read about Okinawan longevity seem to believe that a sense of community and interdependence might be the little bit that tips the scale. Sure diet and health care are significant, but it seems that in much of the west, loneliness is what kills in the end.
@@DJMPTV That's not what it means. Loneliness definitely has an impact on your health (psychologically and physically) for many reasons. Also, if you're living alone with very few friends/family, there's a bigger chance of you dying alone if say you have a domestic incident or have a heart attack at home and nobody's checking on you.
@@skfoxjrxzz5051 Japan has a work-is-more-important-than-life problem and Tokyo and other major cities have a space?-what-the-fuckety-hell-is-space? problem which together cause horrible loneliness in a world brimming with people. There's no time or energy to connect and there's no personal space to do it in.
absolutely, healthcare reform is absolutely mandatory for the usa to keep up with the rest of the world. medicare for all. getting people out of obscene medical debts allows them to contribute more to the rest of the economy, to buy a house, have a stable life and family. those things are proven to increase productivity of workers. bernie is the only chance we have.
Stephen Morrissey yup, and has the highest infant mortality, the fewest maternity benefits, and the largest gap in wealth between the working class and the wealthy.
Side note: saw an ad for your dad's Masterclass on the front of this video. Watched the whole ad because he is a verbally investing person. I see where you get it
Hey man, your probably not gonna see this and I’m not saying this because I want to be recognised or anything but I seriously believe you deserve more recognition these videos have subjects I’ve never heard of with amazing quality, keep it up man
I was in Okinawa for three years (US armed forces). I rented a house in Awase city, and was fortunate enough to make some local friends at my favorite small family restaurant. I once asked a guy how is it that they live so long. His answer was that they didn’t stress out as much. Honestly, they were some of the most chill people that I have ever met. I’m sure that that has something do with longevity and quality of life.
Speaking of superfoods, I absolutely hate the concept. When the concept of superfoods first became a thing, I was working at a nursery and a large amount of seedlings being sold got new tags to market them as superfoods. Did it help bolster sales? Yes but it also made it apparent to me that superfoods was just a marketing gimmick and nothing more.
Goya (bitter melon) is commonly found in Asian grocery stores in the west. A few slices in a dish will reduce your appetite quickly and promotes moderate consumption.
indeed, when i was younger there was a song that went "Oh yeah, life goes on Long after the thrill of livin' is gone" I thought, damn those must be some depressing people with nothing to live for but in my 62nd year of being alive i can understand why some older folks feel that way
Thank you for addressing this issue. My family is from Okinawa but we currently live in Brazil. For the most time, we eat a typical Okinawan diet (how they eat stir-fried Goya with nothing else is still beyond me) but we still suffer all the diseases and health problems anyone else does. What we have is access to quality health care but mostly because we spend a lot of money on health insurance since the universal heath care provided by the government is pretty bad (I still think it's a good thing, and it saves a lot of lives, it's just that we got too many corrupted politicians and officials sucking money out of it).
People going 'but socialized medicine didn't save us from Corona!!!' when the hardest-hit nations tended to be those who stripped off their systems with decades of privatization and austerity and all that raw insanity and hate.
I appreciate the huge research and time you dedicated to this video, and for sure the Health system is crucial in life expectancy of any society, but there's something that doesn't quite fit in your theory, and it is the fact that the POOREST town in Okinawa main island (Ogimi) is at the same time the town with the highest life expectancy in the world
You could spend 24 hours on a video or two weeks on a video. You guys put out quality no matter what, bringing light to things we need to pay attention to and be aware of in our natural world. Thank you
I love the information that you bring here in this channel, it's always something really interesting, geography teachers should use your videos to tell curiosities about their classes, such a great job!
I like how your videos are not simply about some edgy/hipster tourism, but it covers the historical, socio-economic, political, cultural aspects of the places that you visit that make those places what they are now. On top everything, I like how these videos are so well-researched. And as an economist/statistician, I agree with most of your points (about healthcare policy) in this video. Keep up the good work!
Very nice. This is our 6th time to Japan, lived on Okinawa twice before. Know the language and culture very well, Okinawa of course as you know very different than Japan. Love your "lying and lazy" comments! 100% accurate I can assure you. Medical care here is so true. My wife had a fever flying through Tokyo Narita airport to the Philippines. I get a call at our home at that time in New Mexico about 11pm Japan time. She's in a doctor's office, at Narita airport, she had already treated and had medicine. The nurse just needed my credit card information. Yea, anybody can live longer with that sort of care and just from the confidence that care is instantly at your disposal. Great video!!
I get my health care through the VA. It’s as close to socialized as America has. My doctors are great but the paper pushers makes seeing those doctors a challenge for most of us. What good is a doctor you aren’t allowed to see?
As a new subscriber I just have to say, that apart from being fact based, serious and non sensationalist, this channels biggest asset is the soothing voice of Evan Hadfield, I just cant get enough of it.
It's not the 'socialized' health care (whatever that's supposed to mean). The same kind of health care was found in mainland Japan, and you can get equally good, if not better, in Sweden, and in many other countries in the world. The elderly of Okinawa: - are needed and respected, - do martial arts and sport, sing and dance, - aren't stressed out over little things, - don't rush anywhere - hang out with friends (something less and less young people in the West, and in mainland Japan, do) - meditate - and finally, not only eat lots of unprocessed, nutritious foods, but also only fill 60% of their stomachs on a meal. To imply that you've done an in-depth analysis of the reasons for their longevity, and then say 'it's due to modern health care', is simply a job not well done, and great naivete. Modern health care, in fact, kills millions, and makes millions sick-the Americans are ill, why are the Okinawan elderly not sick? Because they're not all on medications.
Yeah, and the countries where you get the same or better healthcare from their system have a functionally identical lifespan to those in Okinawa. Thank you for making my point for me?
(5:47) Hey! Is that fan to the right of what I can only assume is a kiln a spinning heater fan? That's freaking brilliant! Probably sucks a TON of juice, though. ;) I still think it's cool. :)
I went to Okinawa to see relatives. They eat all day long. My mom and I couldn't keep up. They eat heavier meals in the morning then something light in the evening. Plus walking. We walked everywhere. When Igot home I lost 15 lbs in 2 weeks.
6:15 Looking at the date this video was posted, I’m not so convinced you guys had the streptococcal virus… I visited Europe about the time this video was posted. I also got sick with “strept throat” from my travels. I don’t think I was properly diagnosed either.
I've talked to people who are from the mainland like teachers or vets who were assigned to islands between Kagoshima and Okinawa and they told me lots of stories of life in those small communities. I think you hit on a really good point about about the lack of facilities and support from the government. I would also say that it is a man power issue as well though. Also, while I completely understand your mocking of those who go looking for a miracle diet, we do eat goya on the mainland as well... They sell it in supermarkets, we eat it, and I would say a really large percentage of people like it. I love it. Same with sweet potatoes.
You guys should go to Ecuador next. There a lot of stuff to do an learn. And a lot of traditions that aren't anywhere else like the devils festival, and the burning of the monigotes (may have butchered the spelling)
Thanks to Generator, I now know what a body farm is, what a mushroom suit is, and what TWRP is. At least one of those was positive. I got to hear Chris sing, listen to him teach me about maps, and watch him dominate the airplane folding competition. Thanks, Evan!
Taiwan has socialized health care (sort of, more an insurance scheme, but I guess it counts) and I do not think there is a noticeable uptick in the longevity of the population.
Taiwan has seen a 5% increase in lifespan length over the last decade they specifically state as being due to medical advances and accessibility. So I'd say they have.
Very true your dialogue. It's the same everywhere in the world. Up country city dwellers are told to go to the coast & take a dip in the sea 'as it will cleanse you'. Then they go & eat a greasy burger.
And then I had to force-quit the UA-cam app, reopen it, and search for the video again, because of that bug in the iPad app where it leaves the comment field on the screen with an endlessly spinning activity indicator, and you can’t make the video go full screen or otherwise interact with anything any more. I’ll probably have to do it again after this comment. I don’t know why I’m putting myself through this.
Not Occam’s razor, Hanlon’s razor, never attribute to malice that which can be fully explained by incompetence. I keep that quote and a razor over my desk as a teacher. A good video regardless!
This video made me laugh, not for trashing misguided tourism but because I'm from the USA, aka one of the last major 1st world countries without socialized healthcare listening to a Canadian tell me that's where life longevity comes from. RIP me, I guess.
I think you kind of just missed the point. Yang's "Medicare for all" is not universal socialized healthcare, niether is buttigieg's public option. If you have questions i can point you in the right direction. Bernie 2020
Okinawa is ate up with toxic chemicals. I served there in the early 70s for two years right next to a toxic waste storage area. I have been totally disabled for over 20 years due to multiple exposures to that toxic hell brew. Camp Kinser is built upon that area and there has been numerous discoveries of buried chemicals and agent orange in the soil where it was used to control vegetation. Numerous American service men and women have reaped the damage from exposures there which also means that the local population was heavily exposed.
small point, the things u state in the beginning may not be necessarily done for a long life, i try to be healthy in the hope that i can maximise my physical independence and mentally activity till the day i die, when that may be is out of my control and not something i really think about, so a extraordinarily long life is not necessarily something everyone universally covets.
I thought he would have read the script or something else minor like that, given that he was always credited as having "executive produced" the videos "but it's not his fault."
In Bulgaria, there is a region with the highest concentration of individuals who live more than 100 years. Chinese people have Bulgaria the stereotype “bacteria-induced longevity” because of the statistic, since the diet is yogurt, etc. But that’s why the Japanese won’t live longer than me, at least.
I could think of very few things worse that living to a ripe old age. Im in my 50s and hope to be dead in my 70s. I dont want to wear incontinence pants, have my food cut up, not remember what day it is. Or who the feck am i looking at now, Im sure I once loved you but..... meh your gone from my memory.
Each of these issues is being worked on and those with access to decent healthcare they can actually afford will end up getting treated for the issue that would otherwise have caused them to need incontinence pants, getting the physiotherapy or other treatment before they're unable to feed themselves and if the research that's continuing on dementia bears fruit, getting treated to either stop the disease from progressing past its first diagnosis or reverse it before they lose their memories. More people that ever before are living past 100 these days and the vast majority of them would have died years before except for some medical treatment they got when they needed it. It's these interventions that have made life expectancy improve. Planning to be dead by 70 makes no sense as there's no reason you can't live a full and healthy life at 90 years old - an ever increasing number of people are already doing it. I should also point out that the big longitudinal studies on life expectancy also found that apart from healthcare, the other critical elements for a long healthy life are regular exercise and having a decent network of friends/purpose in life.
None of those things are part of healthy aging. And while lots of them don't have cures, they do not only have management options that stop progression but they have preventative measures. But to get both of the later, you usually need regular access to someone who can do screening and detect early warning signs. You know, the kind of care you get when you can afford to see a doctor regularly...
And this is perhaps why healthcare is so crucial. Shame us Americans haven't caught up. No, this man didn't die because he ate too much salt-rich food, he died because the weed he smoked made him eat too much. OK, even this is a little too ridiculous to take seriously, but I'm glad I wrote it. Makes for some good satire.
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@UChXJdGIIJ80g2onF2wxdnYw Most countries with public healthcare have free markets. However, people understand that consumer choice and competition don't work when the consumer is literally dying.
Thank you good Sir!
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I'm from a country with a pretty decent universal health care system but I would still have a goya icecream on Okinawa with you guys anyday!
@@dayegilharno4988
I know huh?!
@@theresasquirestheresa :)
I'd probably have a long life if not for all the stress caused by having to find and chase all the humans out of my forest
It’s good exercise though
Bigfoot im telling you... if you just start putting heads on pikes people will stay out. Have i ever lead you astray before?
@@ameiru1 wait you've spoken to Bigfoot before? Hot damn, what a life.
I feel like this is shading the American health care system and as an American I am here for it.
Absolutely.
-Also a fed up American
He is but he is also warning other nations to look at themselves or IF they have a good healthcare system, not to take it for granted.
healthcare is one of those issue that people DO need to fight for actively because the descission makers are mostly wealthy and will always be able to afford healthcare and the primary agents of change, young people rebelling, are... young and may often undervalue healthcare as their body will take another 10-20 years before it starts turning on them. If you're strong and healthy... helathcare usually is not an issue you will give too much thought.
One FEELS subtext. But the criticism is clearly text.
Your schools are obviously not great either.
As a European, you have my sympathies. I can't imagine having to make a choice between being bankrupt or being sick.
Can’t decide between capitalism and socialism?
Next clickbait article: "The one trick for longevity world leaders don't want you to know about!" then the article says: "Socialized Access to Health Care. That's it. Period."
It's not clickbait if its true.
More a matter of form. But it is true. I have survived so far thanks to it.
@@zachariasnoack4894 Where?
@@SubitusNex I was just making a joke, in case that wasn't clear
Your post was funny
@@RareEarthSeries Don't worry, I knew it. But still rang true in my ears :D
I intend to live forever, or die trying!
The 50cent approach to living healthy.
Me too
Would you like to Collab with me? I'm also researching aging and I want to assemble a team.
@@DrCureAging you seem weird. What are you doing
Nice timing on the video, Evan; I had my first real experience with the Australian healthcare system this week.
On Monday night, around 9pm, I lacerated my hand in the kitchen. My wife drove me to the hospital, so I could get some stitches. An examination, x-ray, and some antibiotics later, I'm sent home with an appointment for the hand surgeon the next morning.
My 1pm on Tuesday, I am on the operating table, having the (apparently far more serious damage than I had anticipated) fixed.
I'm back home at 6pm.
I have no private medical insurance. This entire venture, including the physiotherapy yet to come has cost me $0. Even the parking at the hospital was free. Or the hospital meal I ate 20 minutes before being discharged. Free.
Yes, in the broader sense, I do pay for it with my taxes, but that's kind of the point: me being out of the Australian workforce, not paying taxes, or working at reduced capacity due to an unfixed hand costs the Australian economy more in the long run.
Our healthcare system works. When I go back to work in a few days, I'll be living proof.
I would really love to see this as a PSA on every single American TV station.. there are so many myths about socialized medicine within the current zeitgeist of American culture it's insane. Maybe reshoot with pop's & the public would be brought back to earth (pun intended) about the whole debate.
It’s not just American media, while it is more of a culprit then the rest of the western world. The west as a whole likes to spread untrue myths about nearly everything.
Excuse me, purple sweet potatoes are absolutely amazing!!!
Since moving to Hawaii any recipe that calls for potato we substitute for a purple sweet 🥔. We have had purple potato chips, purple mashed potatoes, purple fries, ECT.
They can be made into desserts because they are delicious!!!
That's true, it got lumped in due to poor scripting. The Okinawan sweet potato is incredible. The point I was trying to make was instead just that food tourists only ever eat it here as a dessert. It isn't a health food if you're always eating it as a dessert.
It’s pretty bad I’ve had it. Tastes like crayons
Sweet potatoes are amazing!
So true. Whenever I go back to my home in China, I always try to bring a lot of purple sweet potato products with me when I leave again, because I just can't get enough of it back home, and can't get any of it in the US where I live.
my wife made me try some of those potato chips while we were in the hawaiian airlines airport lounge and i couldn't stop eating them. i was under the impression that they tasted like poi which i hate as much as goya but i really liked their subtle vegetable/potato flavor. I also really like those purple sweet potato tarts they sell here in okinawa too
I'm speechless. NEVER have I heard such impassioned reasons for socialized health care. Evan~Thank you.
40+ yr nurse (ret), Canadian. And when I think of the "american model" of for profit medical care, I could just weep, I have wept.
Imagine having to tell a mother her insurance doesn't cover a life saving medicine, test or procedure for her child.
Let that sink in.
"You're child may/will die if we don't do this test/procedure/surgery~but your insurance won't cover it. It's probably about $20,000. Can you pay out of pocket? No? Well then I'm sorry. Take your child home to die. Because we can't treat her/him without being paid. Do you need your parking validated?" (
May I add that american healthcare system is a few times more expensive than that in european countries? Or in Japan or Canada. Much worse system for more money, insurance is much more expensive and dont cover up as many things.
But....but.... thats SOCIALISM!
Which is the same as COMMUNISM.
Which has killed tens of millions!
And raised two giant medival rural nations to industrial superpowers in a few decades.
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Cant have that!
Small quibble here I agree Canadian style healthcare is better, but people do NOT just get turned away like that, they are instead saddled with debt. Still not great, but no one is just getting turned out to die on the streets.
You're not exactly turned away, but then you think of the immediate need of a roof, food, etc vs. that medical treatment you should have to help you live longer. As an American who has moved to Japan partially because of the health system. It is a much better system here, even in Okinawa (poorest prefecture) Even when you can't fluently talk to the doctors.
A couple of stitches, ER visit, Tetanus vaccine 2800yen. Checkup on that stitch was 280 yen. Less than $30.00! You can look up your home state costs for 3 stitches its often a few thousand. So people just dont go until absolutely necessary.
@@hanbanaroda Americans with good insurance receive about the best medicine in the world.
A substantial minority of Americans have poor or no insurance, they drag down the averages.
All Canadians have access to pretty good medicine, some Americans have access to amazing medicine.
The most sensible things I've read about Okinawan longevity seem to believe that a sense of community and interdependence might be the little bit that tips the scale. Sure diet and health care are significant, but it seems that in much of the west, loneliness is what kills in the end.
Yup that loneliness ends up being a lack of love and with that lack the person fades away
Yeah a lot of elders in Tokyo die in loneliness too. It’s ironic because tokyo is the most populated city in the world
@@DJMPTV That's not what it means. Loneliness definitely has an impact on your health (psychologically and physically) for many reasons. Also, if you're living alone with very few friends/family, there's a bigger chance of you dying alone if say you have a domestic incident or have a heart attack at home and nobody's checking on you.
@@skfoxjrxzz5051 Japan has a work-is-more-important-than-life problem and Tokyo and other major cities have a space?-what-the-fuckety-hell-is-space? problem which together cause horrible loneliness in a world brimming with people. There's no time or energy to connect and there's no personal space to do it in.
Cameron Eridan ?
Socialised healthcare, relaxed way of live, good climate...
absolutely, healthcare reform is absolutely mandatory for the usa to keep up with the rest of the world. medicare for all. getting people out of obscene medical debts allows them to contribute more to the rest of the economy, to buy a house, have a stable life and family. those things are proven to increase productivity of workers. bernie is the only chance we have.
In the G7 countries the USA is in last place for life expectancy.
Stephen Morrissey
yup, and has the highest infant mortality, the fewest maternity benefits, and the largest gap in wealth between the working class and the wealthy.
Side note: saw an ad for your dad's Masterclass on the front of this video. Watched the whole ad because he is a verbally investing person. I see where you get it
Hey man, your probably not gonna see this and I’m not saying this because I want to be recognised or anything but I seriously believe you deserve more recognition these videos have subjects I’ve never heard of with amazing quality, keep it up man
I was in Okinawa for three years (US armed forces). I rented a house in Awase city, and was fortunate enough to make some local friends at my favorite small family restaurant. I once asked a guy how is it that they live so long. His answer was that they didn’t stress out as much. Honestly, they were some of the most chill people that I have ever met. I’m sure that that has something do with longevity and quality of life.
Speaking of superfoods, I absolutely hate the concept. When the concept of superfoods first became a thing, I was working at a nursery and a large amount of seedlings being sold got new tags to market them as superfoods. Did it help bolster sales? Yes but it also made it apparent to me that superfoods was just a marketing gimmick and nothing more.
Goya (bitter melon) is commonly found in Asian grocery stores in the west. A few slices in a dish will reduce your appetite quickly and promotes moderate consumption.
@@Carewolf Weird but highly effective.
We should start a go fund me to put this video up as a fully fledged ad
I worked in Long Term Care for twenty years, trust me you can live too long. Living to a great old age isn't necessarily a prize you want to win.
indeed, when i was younger there was a song that went "Oh yeah, life goes on Long after the thrill of livin' is gone" I thought, damn those must be some depressing people with nothing to live for but in my 62nd year of being alive i can understand why some older folks feel that way
the mention of how small the hospital was and how hard it would be to deal with anything serious is almost ominous to hear in quarantine
Thank you for addressing this issue.
My family is from Okinawa but we currently live in Brazil. For the most time, we eat a typical Okinawan diet (how they eat stir-fried Goya with nothing else is still beyond me) but we still suffer all the diseases and health problems anyone else does. What we have is access to quality health care but mostly because we spend a lot of money on health insurance since the universal heath care provided by the government is pretty bad (I still think it's a good thing, and it saves a lot of lives, it's just that we got too many corrupted politicians and officials sucking money out of it).
And once you get that healthcare system you have to make sure that your government doesn't try to sell it.
People going 'but socialized medicine didn't save us from Corona!!!' when the hardest-hit nations tended to be those who stripped off their systems with decades of privatization and austerity and all that raw insanity and hate.
The reason I keep coming back is because you keep telling it how it is.
Brutal honesty is what I like about this channel. Excellent opinions .
Just discovered this channel today -opened a whole new world for me
I appreciate the huge research and time you dedicated to this video, and for sure the Health system is crucial in life expectancy of any society, but there's something that doesn't quite fit in your theory, and it is the fact that the POOREST town in Okinawa main island (Ogimi) is at the same time the town with the highest life expectancy in the world
You could spend 24 hours on a video or two weeks on a video. You guys put out quality no matter what, bringing light to things we need to pay attention to and be aware of in our natural world. Thank you
Glad to see you back
I love the information that you bring here in this channel, it's always something really interesting, geography teachers should use your videos to tell curiosities about their classes, such a great job!
I like how your videos are not simply about some edgy/hipster tourism, but it covers the historical, socio-economic, political, cultural aspects of the places that you visit that make those places what they are now. On top everything, I like how these videos are so well-researched. And as an economist/statistician, I agree with most of your points (about healthcare policy) in this video.
Keep up the good work!
Youre alive!
Very nice. This is our 6th time to Japan, lived on Okinawa twice before. Know the language and culture very well, Okinawa of course as you know very different than Japan. Love your "lying and lazy" comments! 100% accurate I can assure you. Medical care here is so true. My wife had a fever flying through Tokyo Narita airport to the Philippines. I get a call at our home at that time in New Mexico about 11pm Japan time. She's in a doctor's office, at Narita airport, she had already treated and had medicine. The nurse just needed my credit card information. Yea, anybody can live longer with that sort of care and just from the confidence that care is instantly at your disposal. Great video!!
I get my health care through the VA. It’s as close to socialized as America has. My doctors are great but the paper pushers makes seeing those doctors a challenge for most of us. What good is a doctor you aren’t allowed to see?
As a new subscriber I just have to say, that apart from being fact based, serious and non sensationalist, this channels biggest asset is the soothing voice of Evan Hadfield, I just cant get enough of it.
I need to add "poetic" to the assets as well.
what a nice, well researched, well thought out video...
I'm overdue for a Patreon subscription. Great content, as usual.
It's not about adding more years to our lives... It is more about adding more "life", more "living" into those years...
Great video as always.
It's not the 'socialized' health care (whatever that's supposed to mean).
The same kind of health care was found in mainland Japan, and you can get equally good, if not better, in Sweden, and in many other countries in the world.
The elderly of Okinawa:
- are needed and respected,
- do martial arts and sport, sing and dance,
- aren't stressed out over little things,
- don't rush anywhere
- hang out with friends (something less and less young people in the West, and in mainland Japan, do)
- meditate
- and finally, not only eat lots of unprocessed, nutritious foods, but also only fill 60% of their stomachs on a meal.
To imply that you've done an in-depth analysis of the reasons for their longevity, and then say 'it's due to modern health care', is simply a job not well done, and great naivete. Modern health care, in fact, kills millions, and makes millions sick-the Americans are ill, why are the Okinawan elderly not sick? Because they're not all on medications.
Yeah, and the countries where you get the same or better healthcare from their system have a functionally identical lifespan to those in Okinawa.
Thank you for making my point for me?
(5:47) Hey! Is that fan to the right of what I can only assume is a kiln a spinning heater fan? That's freaking brilliant! Probably sucks a TON of juice, though. ;) I still think it's cool. :)
bruh the footage is SO SHARP
You've filmed all the smokers, disabled, or obese people. I caught that!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"This episode was produced via the energy contained in [c]onbini chicken"
What is born in darkness has the most difficulty reaching any light
First video of 2020 hype! Hope we'll get tons of great videos this year as well!
I went to Okinawa to see relatives. They eat all day long. My mom and I couldn't keep up. They eat heavier meals in the morning then something light in the evening. Plus walking. We walked everywhere. When Igot home I lost 15 lbs in 2 weeks.
6:15 Looking at the date this video was posted, I’m not so convinced you guys had the streptococcal virus…
I visited Europe about the time this video was posted. I also got sick with “strept throat” from my travels. I don’t think I was properly diagnosed either.
My grandma is from Kyushu (Kuyushu?) She said it's one of the southern islands but shes 88 years old and still, well, barely kicking!
I've talked to people who are from the mainland like teachers or vets who were assigned to islands between Kagoshima and Okinawa and they told me lots of stories of life in those small communities. I think you hit on a really good point about about the lack of facilities and support from the government. I would also say that it is a man power issue as well though.
Also, while I completely understand your mocking of those who go looking for a miracle diet, we do eat goya on the mainland as well... They sell it in supermarkets, we eat it, and I would say a really large percentage of people like it. I love it. Same with sweet potatoes.
I love that your Dad's Master Class was advertised before your UA-cam video haha
Fun fact!
Okinawa during the end stage of WW2 temporarily had one of the shortest lifespans
that wasn't a fun fact. :(
no that was epic fact
I'm guessing you're saying this with knowledge that a lot of people committed suicide in Okinawa after WW2?
In China we eat a ‘bitter cucumber’ that is probably Goya, and the only reason we eat it is because Grandma actually likes the taste...
They're slightly different vegetables, but very similar. From the same family, albeit slightly less bitter.
Rare Earth neat, thx for the heart.
You guys should go to Ecuador next. There a lot of stuff to do an learn. And a lot of traditions that aren't anywhere else like the devils festival, and the burning of the monigotes (may have butchered the spelling)
Uruguay is next, but I already have 2 Bermuda videos and a five-parter from Bosnia coming between them
Rare Earth alright, i just hope you guys put it on the list for the future.
Great video, well worth watching 'til the end
Kata's post-food-tasting facial expression is the best thing ever.
My jewish Grampa is 94 doesn’t eat a very healthy diet and lives off of social security.
Thanks to Generator, I now know what a body farm is, what a mushroom suit is, and what TWRP is. At least one of those was positive. I got to hear Chris sing, listen to him teach me about maps, and watch him dominate the airplane folding competition. Thanks, Evan!
Taiwan has socialized health care (sort of, more an insurance scheme, but I guess it counts) and I do not think there is a noticeable uptick in the longevity of the population.
Taiwan has seen a 5% increase in lifespan length over the last decade they specifically state as being due to medical advances and accessibility. So I'd say they have.
Thanks for the healthcare Tommy.
I rarely agree just because someone else says "Goya sucks". But I'll take your word for it.
Good video!
Very true your dialogue. It's the same everywhere in the world. Up country city dwellers are told to go to the coast & take a dip in the sea 'as it will cleanse you'. Then they go & eat a greasy burger.
I got an ad for Chris Hadfield’s MasterClass before this, and didn’t skip it because in this context it seemed rude to.
And then I had to force-quit the UA-cam app, reopen it, and search for the video again, because of that bug in the iPad app where it leaves the comment field on the screen with an endlessly spinning activity indicator, and you can’t make the video go full screen or otherwise interact with anything any more. I’ll probably have to do it again after this comment. I don’t know why I’m putting myself through this.
Great vid!
3:03 Lying by omission, did you forget they are also mainly plant based
Goya or as we call it here in Nepal KARELA, is amazing. Stir fry with potato add a bit of salt and voila. One of my favorite with rice or roti
Awwwesome & Informative video!
Thank u for sharing this great information!
More please...
Hey! I got an add with your dad on this video! By some company called "Masterclass". Weird coincidence.
Not Occam’s razor, Hanlon’s razor, never attribute to malice that which can be fully explained by incompetence. I keep that quote and a razor over my desk as a teacher. A good video regardless!
Super episode !
*If you didnt visit the little Taco Bowl shop in the Kunigami District of Kin, the whole trip was wasted.*
Sure miss OKI ... Mar '82-Aug '85. Food,Fun,Snorkelling !!
Being able to afford a visit to a doctor is the key to stay healthy?
LIES! It can’t be!
wwhat an interesting chanel
so happy i discovered this
Wow Okinawa is so cool and fascinating
This video made me laugh, not for trashing misguided tourism but because I'm from the USA, aka one of the last major 1st world countries without socialized healthcare listening to a Canadian tell me that's where life longevity comes from. RIP me, I guess.
Physicians can extend average lifespan but not maximal lifespan.
Zero stress is no money worries. Yang 2020!
I think you kind of just missed the point. Yang's "Medicare for all" is not universal socialized healthcare, niether is buttigieg's public option. If you have questions i can point you in the right direction. Bernie 2020
The true hearts. Fortunately we can find out people like you who remember us of our own trues.
Okinawa is ate up with toxic chemicals. I served there in the early 70s for two years right next to a toxic waste storage area. I have been totally disabled for over 20 years due to multiple exposures to that toxic hell brew. Camp Kinser is built upon that area and there has been numerous discoveries of buried chemicals and agent orange in the soil where it was used to control vegetation. Numerous American service men and women have reaped the damage from exposures there which also means that the local population was heavily exposed.
Got a Chris Hadfield ad on this
"It tastes terrible so you can pretend its working" every pseudomedicine ever
That's one way to advertise taking a trip to Canada but the poutine isn't helping them break into the top ten anytime soon.
Okinawa is also the second poorest prefecture in Japan, that can't be good for health, as povery and health problems are usually linked.
You said like me, and I said in my head "ok". But then I saw the KitchenAid blender @ 4:22 ...
small point, the things u state in the beginning may not be necessarily done for a long life, i try to be healthy in the hope that i can maximise my physical independence and mentally activity till the day i die, when that may be is out of my control and not something i really think about, so a extraordinarily long life is not necessarily something everyone universally covets.
So, Evan, does your dad no longer help you with the videos? I never see his name in the credits anymore.
He never did.
I thought he would have read the script or something else minor like that, given that he was always credited as having "executive produced" the videos "but it's not his fault."
The local food looks so inviting! 😋
I really like Goya, or bitter melon. I like it with rice vinegar and sugar. Not sure if its the same vegetables though.
That's why Hong Kong's on the top of the list! 90% of the population is within 20 minutes from a hospital
ya, I've always said, "Why would you want to add years to your life? The extra years you get at the end are the shitty years."
In Bulgaria, there is a region with the highest concentration of individuals who live more than 100 years. Chinese people have Bulgaria the stereotype “bacteria-induced longevity” because of the statistic, since the diet is yogurt, etc. But that’s why the Japanese won’t live longer than me, at least.
The Chinese variant of Goya (Bitter Melon) is actually quite tasty, and isn't nearly as bitter as those found elsewhere.
You are way to hard on yourself I loved this video good job.
Me too, but I think that he tries not to be so preachy and negative in his observations. (Even when he is totally correct.)
I could think of very few things worse that living to a ripe old age. Im in my 50s and hope to be dead in my 70s. I dont want to wear incontinence pants, have my food cut up, not remember what day it is. Or who the feck am i looking at now, Im sure I once loved you but..... meh your gone from my memory.
Betty White just turned 98 and suffers from none of those things. Living longer doesn't mean suffering longer.
Each of these issues is being worked on and those with access to decent healthcare they can actually afford will end up getting treated for the issue that would otherwise have caused them to need incontinence pants, getting the physiotherapy or other treatment before they're unable to feed themselves and if the research that's continuing on dementia bears fruit, getting treated to either stop the disease from progressing past its first diagnosis or reverse it before they lose their memories. More people that ever before are living past 100 these days and the vast majority of them would have died years before except for some medical treatment they got when they needed it. It's these interventions that have made life expectancy improve. Planning to be dead by 70 makes no sense as there's no reason you can't live a full and healthy life at 90 years old - an ever increasing number of people are already doing it. I should also point out that the big longitudinal studies on life expectancy also found that apart from healthcare, the other critical elements for a long healthy life are regular exercise and having a decent network of friends/purpose in life.
@@soonerproud so she is OK thats great. What about all the others in "care" homes and hospitals.
@@peglor Oh I will be long gone before they cure Alzheimer's. so will the next 4 to 5 generations.
None of those things are part of healthy aging. And while lots of them don't have cures, they do not only have management options that stop progression but they have preventative measures. But to get both of the later, you usually need regular access to someone who can do screening and detect early warning signs. You know, the kind of care you get when you can afford to see a doctor regularly...
And this is perhaps why healthcare is so crucial. Shame us Americans haven't caught up. No, this man didn't die because he ate too much salt-rich food, he died because the weed he smoked made him eat too much.
OK, even this is a little too ridiculous to take seriously, but I'm glad I wrote it. Makes for some good satire.
TLDR: Food options are great, M4A is yugely bestly awesome for your Health.
All of my grandparents lived into their 90s all of them where corn feed farmers.
Absolutely shocked to find a brewery from my hometown advertised in this at 1:46, shout out to against the grain!
The access to quality healthcare jab was sublime. :)
My mom heard the conclusion "those are some old ladies"and gave me a look of WTF are watching lol
>"TASTELESS OLD PEOPLE" was shot by EVAN 'GOYA SUCKS' HADFIELD
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