Five Charts Tell You How You Feel

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-13/five-charts-tell-you-how-you-feel

Forget the blood work and the scale—how healthy do you feel? It seems the answer depends on where you live.

According to data from the "Health at a Glance 2015" report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development, when adults in OECD member countries were asked to rank their self-perceived health status, nearly 90 percent of New Zealanders pegged their health as good or very good, compared with just 35.1 percent of South Koreans.1

What makes people in one country feel healthier than their cross-border neighbors? The charts below show whether such factors as a country's average fruit consumption or smoking rate appear to be factors.


Note: In Israel, respondents only had two choices of answers—good/very good or bad/very bad. Respondents in all other countries also had the option of answering "fair," which many did.
Source: OECD


A fruitful diet

If a larger share of a country's adult population reports including fruit in its daily diet, its residents are also more likely to report feeling good or very good. Chile and Finland, the two reporting countries with the lowest fruit consumption, fall well below the OECD average for feeling like a million bucks. And then there are the puzzlers. South Korea comes in slightly above the OECD fruit consumption average, but its residents still don't feel so good about their health.



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1. Feel so good

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2. Maybe because the people aren't hungry?

That could have a lot to do with it.