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The image rural people like to hold of country life is that fresh air and exercise make it a healthy place to live. The sad reality of statistics gathered by the Canadian Community Health Survey by Statistics Canada in 2005, show Huron and Perth counties near the top or leading in categories such as heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.

Rural Ontario has the second highest death rates from cardiac causes
in Canada, only after east coast provinces. The Huron-Perth-Grey-Bruce
region has one of the highest cardiac death rates (15.2) within rural
Ontario. Moreover, the prevalence of diabetes in the Grey-Bruce area
is double (8.0%) that of the Middlesex-London (4.1%), a neighbouring
urban area

This is just one part of the startling picture drawn by statistics
tracking the health status of Canadian rural residents. Heart disease,