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Consider heart disease.
low socioeconomic status creates a 50% greater chance
of its development. and not just because people
may have poor lifestyle habits, but due to psychosocial
stress itself, which increases the hormone
cortisol, damaging arteries fostering strokes
and heart attacks. Low socioeconomic status
is a heart disease risk factor on its own,
similar for diabetes and cancer with far higher rates
for those relatively poor. As one study put it,
"Poverty itself is a carcinogen." And given that heart disease
diabetes and cancer were some of the leading causes
of death in that highly unequal global society
of the early 21st century, these facts help explain
why life span gaps between the rich and the poor
were shockingly wide
low socioeconomic status creates a 50% greater chance
of its development. and not just because people
may have poor lifestyle habits, but due to psychosocial
stress itself, which increases the hormone
cortisol, damaging arteries fostering strokes
and heart attacks. Low socioeconomic status
is a heart disease risk factor on its own,
similar for diabetes and cancer with far higher rates
for those relatively poor. As one study put it,
"Poverty itself is a carcinogen." And given that heart disease
diabetes and cancer were some of the leading causes
of death in that highly unequal global society
of the early 21st century, these facts help explain
why life span gaps between the rich and the poor
were shockingly wide
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Consider heart disease.
low socioeconomic status
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creates a 50% greater chance
of its development.
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and not just because people
may have poor lifestyle habits,
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but due to psychosocial
stress itself,
00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.349
which increases the hormone
cortisol, damaging arteries
00:00:16.382 --> 00:00:19.998
fostering strokes
and heart attacks.
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Low socioeconomic status
is a heart disease risk factor
00:00:22.288 --> 00:00:25.824
on its own,
similar for diabetes and cancer
00:00:25.857 --> 00:00:28.927
with far higher rates
for those relatively poor.
00:00:28.096 --> 00:00:33.433
As one study put it,
"Poverty itself is a carcinogen."
00:00:33.465 --> 00:00:36.003
And given that heart disease
diabetes and cancer
00:00:36.101 --> 00:00:38.937
were some of the leading causes
of death in that highly unequal
00:00:38.971 --> 00:00:41.407
global society
of the early 21st century,
00:00:41.044 --> 00:00:44.041
these facts help explain
why life span gaps
00:00:44.444 --> 00:00:47.246
between the rich and the poor
were shockingly wide.
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In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as w
