Asian Americans Are The Healthiest

Submitted by a GWM who is a regular reader of the blog.

Asian American adults — especially Chinese American adults — are more physically and psychologically healthy than other U.S. adults, according to Centers for Disease Control data released Thursday. 

Of the population — which includes the Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean subgroups — Chinese adults scored the best on five measures of health, including health status, multiple chronic conditions, serious psychological distress in the last month and limitations in work or social participation. 

Among the various health markers, Vietnamese adults were the most likely to report fair or poor health, serious psychological distress and work limitations, Filipino adults were most likely to report multiple chronic conditions, Japanese adults were most connected with work limitations and Korean adults with social participation limitations.

The data was collected between 2010 and 2014 as part of the National Health Interview Survey, surveying about 166,000 people over the age of 18.

The report gave no explanation for why these differences might exist, concluding that more research was needed to understand them.

---"Asian Americans are the healthiest Americans", MarketWatch 23 May 2016

FuelMix says:  Well, we have some theories:

1.  Asian Americans in general, are very tied to their families.  Whether they're Chinese, Indian, Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese or Filipino, they're never very far from Mom's cooking - or from a family member who can give them advice.

2.  They may act or pretend to be white and trigger all those ethnic descriptions for example:

• Banana - (Chinese) - Yellow on the outside, white on the inside;
• Coconut - (Indian) - Brown on the outside, white on the inside, or "ABCD" = "American Born Confused Desi";
• Flip - (Filipino) - American Born Filipino, originally thought to have come from the World War 2 slang acronym, "Fucking Little Island People", now morphing into "Fine Looking Island People".  Some Filipinos in Asia or the West will casually refer to themselves as "Mangoes", since the Philippines is a major exporter of that fruit;

....and so on, but at the end of the day, American Asians will stick to their culture.

3.  That combination of family and culture, gives Asian Americans a strong sense of continuity.

4.  Of the Asian groups named in the article, Chinese-Americans and Indian-Americans appear to be the ones excelling academically and professionally in the US (a purely unscientific observation by FuelMix).  That sense of achievement is also going to contribute to their sense of well being.

5.  And did we mention the Asian (and for that matter Mediterranean and Middle East) diet is far superior to the processed shit consumed by crackers and niggas..??

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