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Posted by Hendie
on 9/19/2005, 21:59:43, in reply to "Immigrants’ health declines"
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I'll tell you why! It's because the nutrition of food here in North America is grossly deficient of necessary nutrients for our bodies to keep itself healthy. Often immigrants come from countries where they still eat mostly home grown, or at least more nutritious fruits and vegetables. As they succumb to the nutrient deficient diet that this continent enforces, they become as sickly as their new fellow countrymen. Nothing to do with stress - we had ample stress in South Africa!
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: Immigrants’ health declines
: Statistics Canada survey reveals that new
: Canadians have better health when they
: arrive — but that appears to change over
: time
: BY NORMA GREENAWAY
: Ottawa Citizen
:
: OTTAWA — Immigrants may land in Canada
: boasting better health than most native-born
: Canadians. But their physical well-being
: appears to deteriorate over time, especially
: among those who hailed from Africa, Asia and
: other non-European countries, a new
: Statistics Canada study says.
: The report says the health of
: non-European immigrants eventually declines
: to a point where it approximates that of the
: general Canadian-born population.
: The study’s authors suggest possible
: causes of the shift include stresses
: associated with the process of immigrating,
: the natural aging process and couch potato
: lifestyle choices.
: Smoking was not deemed a significant
: factor because non-European immigrants were
: only half as likely as the Canadian-born
: population to start smoking on a daily basis
: between 1994-95 and 2002-03, the authors
: wrote.
: The study, based on an analysis of
: interviews with 14,100 adults who
: participated in the National Population
: Heath Survey, is the first to look at
: immigrants’ perception of their own health
: over the eight-year period.
: “While non-European immigrants were not
: picking up the smoking habit, they were
: somewhat more likely than the Canadian-born
: to have become physically inactive during
: their leisure time,” the study says.
: “This may explain why these immigrants
: were more likely to report declining
: health.”
: It also found non-European immigrants
: were almost twice as likely as the
: Canadian-born population to have experienced
: a substantial weight gain since 1994-95,
: meaning at least a 10 per cent increase in
: their body mass index.
: This group of immigrants also reported
: visiting a doctor more frequently than the
: others over the years. Non-European
: immigrants were 1.5 times more likely than
: the Canadian-born population and European
: immigrants to become so-called frequent
: visitors to doctors, meaning they visited or
: consulted a doctor at last six times during
: the previous year.
: “The process of immigration itself is
: stressful and disruptive, possibly involving
: financial constraints, employment problems
: or the lack of a social support network, all
: of which may undermine health,” the report
: said. “The loss of a support network of
: family and friends in the country of origin
: can be particularly difficult.”
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