The real reason Swedes live longer

The reason is that we live in an equal society!

Swede life: Research has found that the idea of a blond and bronzed Scandinavian family, glowing with health is not just a stereotype. In fact, there is a direct correlation between the region's economic equality and its exceptionally low rate of health and social problems

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"In the related area of socioeconomic inequality we’ve already become aware of unexpected influences through the work of Professor Richard Wilkinson of the University of Nottingham.
In his 2009 book The Spirit Level, co-authored with Kate Pickett, he summarised a raft of research all pointing in more or less the same direction. In countries where there is a big earnings gap between rich and poor, life expectancy is lower while mental illness, obesity and drug and alcohol abuse are all more common. The real surprise is that it’s not only the poor who suffer. The population as a whole do less well if the gap is wider. The nations with the smallest wealth gap and the lowest incidence of health and social problems are the Japanese and the Scandinavians. The countries with, respectively, the greatest and highest are America, Portugal and Britain. The biological explanation for this is uncertain, but possibly mediated by the hormonal effects of perpetual anxiety about status and position, or loss of them. Economics affects health but not always as you might expect."
Here is a link 1½ hour youtube in the subject

There own website you will find here http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/

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