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I’ve been following Jay Parkinson for a bit now. He has a sound head on his shoulders and is a voice of reason when it comes to wanting to reform our broken views on healthcare. Watching Waiting for Superman helped me realize just how much can be screwed up in a giant antiquated system like education, and healthcare is just as bad.
Western medicine is plagued with pill pushing doctors encouraged by a corrupt system ruled by pharma. Simple solutions like what Parkinson says below–
If you design an environment where health is easy, that population will, as a whole, be healthier than places where health is hard, as in, the entire rest of the United States.
–are so complicated to actually achieve, because although we think we’re living in the future, our ways are so beset in the past that we are blinded by our ignorance. I suggestion following what Parkinson writes, because he thinks for the future, and we need more of him. Not to mention, he’s a great photographer too.
So Manhattan is the skinniest county in New York. This should of course come as no surprise. But here’s the punchline:
Manhattan’s wiry and willowy were eager on Wednesday to dissect how they brought home such an honor. First and foremost, they said, Manhattan is a place where people walk. Even subway riders need to climb stairs. Storefront yoga studios, parks and pedestrian-friendly streets make working out relatively easy.
If you design an environment where health is easy, that population will, as a whole, be healthier than places where health is hard, as in, the entire rest of the United States. That, and, there’s a big component of vanity in health. And we’re surely some of the vainest people in the world, with plenty of businesses around catering to that. It’s not that complicated. You’ve got to fight capitalism with capitalism.
photo by The Sartorialist
