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At the end of last month, the European Union in Brussels released the 2017 annual EU health report, according to which the average life expectancy of Spaniards has reached 83 years, which is four years more than the 79 years of 2000, and is also higher than the EU average by three years, knowing that each year of improvement on the road to increasing the average life expectancy is a remarkable achievement. Spain became the longest living country in the EU and the second longest living in the world.
To be honest, this report touched me a lot.
I've seen reports on life expectancy in China before, and the highest average life expectancy is found in Shanghai and Beijing, the so-called most stressful areas, but they are the areas with the longest life expectancy. Why? The main reason is that Beijing and Shanghai have concentrated the best medical and health resources in the country. In many parts of China, a serious illness is basically equivalent to a death sentence, and in many places there is no treatment at all, so many people go home and wait for death when they receive the diagnosis.
This means that the most important prerequisite for improving life expectancy is access to medical care. Spain, after all, is one of the world's leading countries in terms of medical technology and health care.
But when I read the report carefully, I realized that Spain's healthcare is not that much of a front-runner: the number of doctors per 1,000 people is the European average, the number of nurses per 1,000 people is much lower than the European average, and the number of beds is also lower than the average, that is to say, in the European Union, where the overall level of healthcare is very strong, the healthcare that Spaniards are so proud of is just an average score. it's true that healthcare determines average life expectancy, Spaniards should be ranked in the middle of the EU as well, so why can they be ranked first in the EU?
Is it because Spaniards like sports? You see, Spain is so good at soccer and basketball. In fact, it is not, this report also wrote, the Spanish people's sports habit is the second lowest in the EU, almost all countries than the Spanish people love sports. It seems that the saying that life is all about sports doesn't work that well either.
When you think about it, you realize that the reason behind this is something we all know: Spain is the country where life is the most enjoyable when you can basically guarantee that you have access to medical care.
First of all, there is very little work pressure in Spain. It is not that Spaniards are too lazy to work every day, in fact, the French and Germans work shorter hours than Spaniards every year, although Spaniards are longer than France and Germany, but in the world is still very short, at the same time, Spaniards are no pressure to speak of, there are not many people every day thinking of hooking up to get promoted to be able to rest assured that their work on the line, the main thing to think about today's food and after work, to go to the where! The main concern is what to eat today and where to go after work. The Spaniards are also a typical example of people who want to be safe and get rich, and as I have written before, the Spaniards are the most eager to take the civil service exams in Europe.
Secondly, Spain is a very friendly and comfortable place to live, and compared to the rest of Europe, Spaniards are more helpful, cheerful and talkative. The Spanish people are always in a good mood, friendly and supportive of each other, so that there is no gloom and doom every day.
Again, we must talk about the climate in Spain. Because of the sea, so the climate is very good, do not want to Britain all day rain and so on, Spain is the most sunny place in Europe, every day out to look at the blue sky and white clouds, the mood will definitely be better than every day cloudy to a lot, although I myself is a special like the rain people, but really to the rain in Shanghai even a month of rain almost got me out of depression.
Britain and Germany are particularly frequent rain, not to mention the Scandinavian countries are several months a year is the polar night without the sun, traveling in that environment do not feel out, long time to live on the human body and mind depression is the shadow of the shadow of the Scandinavian aspects are very developed, but their suicide rate is amazingly high, and you expect the poor happy Spaniards suicide seems to be a little difficult.
In fact, the impact of sunlight on the elderly is far greater than we think, sunny places, the possibility of rheumatism will be greatly reduced, and sunlight can help the absorption of calcium, you can let the elderly bones are not so loose, reducing the probability of fracture, in fact, after a fracture of the old man and the old man with rheumatism, do not really like to travel, which leads to the home all day to hold back, and the There is no rheumatism and no broken bones of the elderly, you can often go out, walking is also a kind of exercise, go out will relax their mood, I often see the road to take over the shift and walk the old lady, I have to say that on this point, Spaniards than the Nordic people on the win too much.
Now in the world's major countries, the main causes of death are cardiovascular disease and cancer, and these two items are closely related to emotions and stress, the Spanish people are less stressed and optimistic character, so they can reduce the occurrence of these diseases. What else is related to these diseases? That's right, diet.
The Spanish Mediterranean diet has become an intangible cultural heritage of mankind, olive oil itself has the effect of preventing hardening of the arteries and cancer, cooking is considered the best choice, coupled with Spain's eggs, milk and meat are not in short supply, the quality of the best, fish, fruits and vegetables are all available.
The Mediterranean-style diet seeks a balanced diet, but you want to be balanced is also conditional on a lot of places in Northern Europe, vegetables are particularly expensive, poor people can not afford to eat, you want to be balanced can not be, and Spain as a famous European orchards and vegetable gardens, the Mediterranean climate abounds in a variety of fruits, vegetables, we would like to think of the year suspected that the Spanish cucumbers have a problem, the whole of Europe, including Russia, are not! vegetables to eat?
Spain is also one of Europe's most important offshore fishing countries, because of their own production, resulting in Spain's fruits and vegetables and a variety of seafood in Europe are considered cheap, the civilian population can eat, so that every family has a "balanced diet" this condition, the best way to achieve a healthy diet is not surprising.
Finally, although there is no scientific data to support this, I think the nap thing works.
In fact, I honestly think that the Spanish state of being relaxed, focusing on quality of life and enjoyment, and ending up with a long life for everyone, is the best way for an average person to live. Chinese people are famous for their hard work, but how many of them are really trying to realize their ideals and ambitions? But it's just to make more money, to realize "financial freedom" earlier, because being a middle-class person in China, the status of the middle class is too fragile, the middle class has no sense of security to speak of, in order to live well in China, the threshold needed is too high, the sense of security in China is how expensive.
This lack of security comes from the lack of anxiety about the lack of complete social security and health care, and secondly from the brainwashing of mutual comparison and consumerism, so that we can not go to the contentedness, in fact, people live a lifetime, it is not just to live a little bit longer in order to be able to see a little bit of beauty and eat a little bit of food a little bit more? (Anyway, we Taurus is so think) if early to their own tired sick, that make money and why use it? It can be said that the Spanish this way of life, is we should envy, or we can also try.
The first thing that came to mind was that the longest average life expectancy in China is in Beijing and Shanghai, where the statistics should be the demolition of a number of suites of indigenous old ladies and old men, and the daily singing and playing chess and dancing is not a long time to live, and those 60 or 70 years old rural migrant workers and the ordinary wage earners, they are certainly not counted in it.
There is no need to think about whether to count or not to count in the future, because they have been driven back to their hometowns.
Students in the big cities, do not be too desperate, paid so much social security, just feed the current indigenous, when we are old, simply not enough money to give us a pension, so work or to work, but do not forget to take care of the body, the lights of the big city is actually burning is our young people's youth and energy ah. In fact, sometimes, learn more from the Spanish, is also quite good, I hope we can live a long and happy.