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Doing our part to live even more years in good health
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Anything that can get more people exercising regularly is good. It is far cheaper to provide a little incentive for people to stay healthy, than to treat them for a medical condition that could have been prevented.
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The Government and insurance companies that pay the hospital bills are trying every which way to keep people here healthier.
Life expectancy in Singapore is one of the longest in the world. The people enjoy the most number of healthy years in the world at 73.9 years in 2019 - beating the Japanese, who were second with 73.3 years of good health.
