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Why the Netherlands Is the Healthiest Country in the world.

The Netherlands is known for many things: cheese, windmills, and admittedly, their lax policy on marijuana. Recently, however, the country has danced once again onto the world stage for another reason: its health. The country ranked the healthiest out of 125 in Oxfam’s recent study, which compared several factors including food availability, obesity rates, and food quality. Here are several other reasons why the Netherlands is the healthiest country in the world.

For the fourth year in a row, the Netherlands secured its top position among 35 European countries by scoring 870 of a maximum 1,000 points.

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That defines healthy? Honestly and seriously, hand washing rate is a better indication of health than food availability.

Bloomberg lists Spain as #1 btw. Lots of different methodologies, each having different results.They also list the Netherlands and Canada as nearly identical, and way down the list.

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lol yes very weird testing criteria
it shows we are way healthier than canada so it must be correct;)

my favourite is still this one:

If you lived in Canada instead of Netherlands, you would:

Health

be 44.1% more likely to be obese

In Netherlands, 20.4% of adults are obese. In Canada, that number is 29.4% of people.

Economy

spend 36.5% less on taxes

Netherlands has a top tax rate of 52.0%. In Canada, the top tax rate is 33.0%.

be 35.4% more likely to be unemployed

In Netherlands, 4.8% of adults are unemployed. In Canada, that number is 6.5%.

Life

be 25.0% more likely to die during infancy

In Netherlands, approximately 3.6 children die before they reach the age of one. In Canada, on the other hand, 4.5 children do.

Geography

see 448.1 times more coastline

Netherlands has a total of 451 km of coastline. In Canada, that number is 202,080 km.

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Sadly true, Canada is disgustingly obese.

All those other numbers are probably true but misleading. Tax freedom day (the day of the year you stop paying for government and start paying for yourself) is similar in both nations. Infant mortality and unemployment are so low in both nations that a tiny shift can result in a 40% increase. Most of Canada’s coastline is in the arctic where nobody goes.

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lol no no no its on the interwebs so its trooooo usa #1 usa#1 oh wait…

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One of the Lithuanians just sent me this. He says the guy is Dutch, which seems likely.

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lol could be but thats not dutch police

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No, he claimed it was a Dutchman visiting Lithuania. As this behaviour is normal in the Netherlands, it seems likely to me he’s correct.

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you have a strange sense of what is normal lol

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You nailed it, master-baither.

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Do you think it is descending colon and cecum? Or sigmoid colon and rectum?
It’s bigger ja?

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Tell him descending colon and cecum is the correct answer.

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It’s not worth it just for attention but lodging and meals in jail with a bible o.k…

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It was his free speech. Nico probably defends it. Right, Nico?

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Not politically correct but at least my observation was anatomically correct.

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As long as you get the pleasure of labeling it, what do we care if Nico defends it.

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So I can add the pleasure of mocking him.

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That’s a weird pleasure to have, Reg.

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I believe that’s a traditional Dutch practice. Some sort of Dutch religious dance.

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They way he was pissing all over the place it must have been a Black Dutch rain dance.