In the Longest Living People On The Earth Part 1, we talked about the healthy people of Iceland.  In the Longest Living People On The Earth Part 2, we talked about the healthy people of Japan.  And in the Longest Living People On The Earth Part 3, we talked about the healthy people of Finland.  In this blog post, we’ll talk about the healthy people from Switzerland.

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Super Healthy People of Switzerland!

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Switzerland is one of the top rated healthiest and longest living people on Earth.  Why?  What are they doing that the rest of the world isn’t doing?

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Switzerland Stats!

The beautiful country of Switzerland is a landlocked country.  It has Germany to the north, Italy to the south, Austria to the east and France to the west.  Its population is approximately 8,500,000 and its land mass is 31,392 square miles and is the approximate size of New Hampshire and Vermont put together.  Its steep landscapes include the Swiss Plateau, Swiss Alps and Swiss Jura.

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9 Things the Swiss Get Right About Healthy Living

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Swiss Meals!

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A typical Swiss breakfast includes:

• Bread with butter or margarine with marmalade or honey
• Cereal
• Swiss cheese (obvious uh)
• Cereal with milk
• Cold or hot chocolate or
• Hot coffee or
• Tea

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A typical Swiss Lunch includes:

• Sandwich or
• Birchermüesli or
• Complete meal

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Swiss National Dinner includes:

• Rosti
• Rosti, Valaisanne-style
• Raclette and fondue (molten cheese eaten with bread or potatoes)
• Rösti (fried grated potatoes)
• Muesli (an oatmeal breakfast dish) and
• Zürcher Geschnetzeltes (veal and mushrooms on a cream sauce – MMmmmmmm – sounds DELICIOUS).

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Swiss Drinking Water!

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Tap water is strictly controlled & processed and meets the highest standards of hygiene and safety.  Trace elements of foreign substance do exist but trace elements are so low, Swiss tap water is safe to drink.

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Swiss Death Statistics!

In the year 2017, 66,971 Swiss died.  31.4% were victims of heart diseases, while 25.8% were victims of cancer.

Heart Disease:  In the year 2017, of the 66,971 Swiss people who died in the country that year:

• 4% were victims of heart diseases
• 8% succumbed to cancer
• 2 all other deaths

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Cancer:  Cancer is the 2^nd leading cause of death in Switzerland.  01 in 17 people are hospitalized for cancer.  Cancer targets Swiss men aged between 45 and 84.  Cancer targets Swiss women aged between 25 and 84.

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Smokers:  Year 2017 stats indicate 27.1% Swiss smoked cigarettes.  Each year approximately 9,500 Swiss died from smoking cigarettes.

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Switzerland’s Superior Healthcare System!

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Here’s a quote:

“The Swiss have universal coverage, the healthiest population in the Western Hemisphere, and a government that spends a mere 2.7 percent of GDP on health care: about a third of what ours spends,” writes Forbes’s Avik Roy. “The Swiss system isn’t perfectly transposable onto the United States, but it is vastly superior.”

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Switzerland has the best Healthcare System in the World:

• Swiss residents are required by law to purchase health insurance (Mandatory Health Insurance [MHI]). Cost is not more than 10% of their earnings.
• Nobody is denied coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• The government subsidizes MHI for people with low income.
• Patients have direct access to all levels of care — no referrals are necessary.

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Swiss Vegetarians!

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The Swiss population included almost 11% vegetarians and 3% vegans which comes to approximately 1,190,000 vegetarians and vegans.  And the vegetarian movement is slowly growing.  Only 02 countries in the world have more vegetarians than Switzerland – India and Mexico.

Older Swiss government data indicates that 2.3% of the Swiss population never eat meat and there’s a trend towards eating less meat.

A study by Eco Experts rated Switzerland as the #1 vegetarian country in Europe.  The Eco Experts study focused on 26 countries and included the following criteria:

• Veggie friendly restaurants
• Annual meat consumption
• Price of meat per kilogram

Switzerland had the highest density of restaurants – 165 veggie friendly restaurant per 100,000 people of the 26 countries.

Switzerland also had the lowest consumption of meat of the 26 countries.

All across Europe, vegetarianism and veganism are growing in popularity.  Even Portugal who came in ‘dead’ last in the 26 country Eco Experts study, Portugal is also showing a trend toward vegetarianism and veganism.

According to a 2019 Swissveg study, 31% of the Swiss population (2,600,000 Swiss) are reducing meat consumption or totally eliminating meat all together.

According to a Chef’s Pencil study, Switzerland ranks 5^th on the ‘Most Vegan Countries in Europe.’  The Chef’s Pencil study, indicated 11% of the Swiss population is Vegetarian, 3% of the Swiss population is Vegan and 17% of the Swiss population is Flexitarian.

Note:

• Vegetarianism: A practice to abstain from eating meat and other animal products.  What’s left?  Fruits and vegetables.

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• Vegan: A practice to abstain from eating meat and other animal products.  What’s left?  Fruits and vegetables.  Also Vegans do not use any animal products like leather belts, fur coats, leather pants, leather jackets,…

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• Flexitarian: Flexitarians are people who are primarily vegetarians, but on a rare occasion they eat meat (beef, pork, fish, fowl).  And when they do eat meat, they’re very careful on how much meat they consume.

It is noted the reason most Swiss go vegetarian is because of their feelings toward animal welfare.

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Bottom Line!

Bottom Line – the people of Switzerland are some of the most healthy and longest living people on Earth because of their growing Vegetarian, Vegan and Flexitarian lifestyles.

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The elimination of saturated fats and salt in their diets is a reflection on their lower risks for:

• Heart Disease
• Cancers
• Stroke
• Diabetes
• Hypertension

which increases the country’s overall vibrant life and longevity?

In my humble opinion (author), with Vegetarianism, Veganism and Flexitarians growing in popularity in Switzerland and across Europe, in the near future, Europe will follow Japan with a high number of healthy & vibrant European Centenarians – people living beyond 100-years old.

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