Eine Studie zeigt, dass die Menschen in Großbritannien weniger Jahre bei guter Gesundheit verbringen als noch vor einem Jahrzehnt
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/27/people-in-uk-spend-fewer-years-in-good-health-than-a-decade-ago-study-finds
Von peakedtooearly
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Obviously obesity is going to play a huge role here and I can only expect it’ll improve as more and more of these GLP1 drugs get rolled out and are more easily available
Anecdotally I put this down to increased levels of stress and most people being time poor now.
When you factor in work, travel, shopping, cooking, bills etc, couples MAYBE have 1-2 hours free per day if they are lucky.
It’s no wonder people either aren’t having children or cannot invest the time to raise them properly. I’m not making excuses for bad parenting, but having less time free is absolutely a factor.
Me and the Mrs don’t have kids, are in our 40’s and don’t see how it would be possible without winning the lottery. Heck, forget kids, it’s looking increasingly like we will be unable to retire, and we work medium level government type jobs.
Even my 84 year old father said he wouldn’t have a child in this world now (which really surprised me….)
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Who’d have thought 14 years of austerity, defunding the NHS, growing inequality and rising COL would negatively affect health?
The Health Foundation (think tank) likely doesn’t like a Britsh Heart Foundation (major registered charity in the UK, founded in 1961, dedicated to funding research into heart and circulatory diseases) [article on a bunch of risks that follow recovercy from covid19](https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/what-does-coronavirus-do-to-your-body)
Less money = worse food. Doctors make you feel guilty for taking up their time so going is a last resort. Keep humans miserable and their health suffers, funny that.
What is „healthy“ anyway
Because the article says its from “ calculated using mortality rates and self-reported health surveys.“
Like for example my Dad was diagnosed with high blood pressure, which is under control and now at normal levels thanks to meds. So would he report healthy or unhealthy if he was asked?
Of course lifestyle factors play a huge part, but interestingly it says mortality rate isnt effected. Could the fact we now have better than ever detection methods also play a part, so that those that are unhealthy actually know about it and treated?
We’re a fat nation. We stuff our faces with processed food. We are stressed at work and by extremist lies on social media. No wonder we’re getting sicker.
When my brother in law died at 59 we had a good chat with the funeral director on the drive to the crem. He was saying how 10-15 years ago most of his charges were between 80 and 100, now the average has dropped to between 50 and 70 with only the odd few making it passed that. When the funeral director notices the shift that’s very telling IMO.
Almost like conservative types have been defunding the NHS and letting housing cost skyrocket
And they have gone and increased the retirement age. Meaning you get zero time to enjoy retirement because most people will be too broken.
The article cites obesity as the leading cause of this decline.
If that’s the case, the increasing normalisation of GLP-1 weight loss aids is obviously very timely, but isn’t enough of a structural change to keep people at a healthy weight.
We need structural shifts in the food system to make it easier for people to pick healthier food that’s filling while being less calorific, making it cheaper to buy healthier foods and more expensive to choose unhealthy ones. Obesity is creating an unsustainable pressure on the NHS.
Well yeah no shit, people don’t bother going to the doctors anymore unless its a very serious issue because of how difficult it is to be seen. By the time they decide to get looked at the issue has gotten so bad they gotta go straight to A&E.
The rich who aren’t affected don’t care. The best thing we can do is stop contributing. Stop having kids and buying shit. Let their kids work hard and deal with a country in ruins. I refuse to care for a country that refuses to listen to reason.
Why are obese people blaming their financial situation and government? If you’re obese you’ve done it to yourself.
Come on people – what do YOU reckon? I bet you know EXACTLY why! Tell us!
We need to start including forever chemicals in our conversations about public health. By all accounts my generation, Gen Z, are some of the most health-conscious people since probably the “greatest generation.” We drink and smoke less, partly because of the fact it’s too expensive but also we are aware of the negative effects. We also have a huge exercise culture, I don’t know a single Gen Z adult in my life who doesn’t do physical activity at least once a week (strength training, running, climbing).
Yet our rates of stomach and digestive issues are steadily climbing. Young people are more likely to get stomach and bowel cancers, and rates are going up. This cannot be coincidence.
I have developed digestive issues, even though I eat an incredibly balanced diet with lots of seeds, vegetables, probiotic foods. I rarely eat red meat, I have refined sugar and dessert only on weekends if that.
Plastic pollution, PFAs, biodiversity loss etc. have been increasing exponentially since the 1980s. We live high stress lives constantly on high alert on social media, constantly bombarded by work due to unimpeded internet access 24/7 (can’t even escape emails on the tube now.) Little socialising, little time outdoors. Poor sleep quality.
We know plastics have an inflammatory effect on the body especially the gut.
We know male fertility is steadily dropping year by year.
We know stress shortens your life.
Lack of sleep increases your chances of dementia.
At what point do we stop blaming ordinary people financially under pressure and start blaming corporations and governments who are running on a model for society completely incongruous to human nature and health.
This is caused by many factors, so anyone solely blaming companies, the government or people themselves is missing the big picture. We live in an obesogenic environment that is filled with pollution (the air, land and sea), and have a population that is stressed to the nines, with very little free time to actually exercise and relax. Companies design food in a lab that is bad for us, knowing people will eat too much of it becomes our primitive monkey brains run on 500,000 year old software that has not updated to the modern world. It is also why we choose not to exercise or take the easy route when offered it. We work long hours (plus commute) at jobs most of us do not like for not enough money to live on, with retirement a pipe dream for many. Society is eroding as trust disappears and social media drives people to extremes, furthering division amongst us. We breathe polluted air, drink polluted water and eat food grown in polluted soil; microplastics, heavy metals and forever chemicals are all but inescapable too. Personal responsibility does play a part too. People are aware of what they should do, however people still do not do that for various reasons, both environmental and personal.
The reality is that solving this is not easy and requires a monumental systemic change that a lot of people are going to hate. Simply blaming one factor is going to solve nothing.
We did have a once in a generation pandemic. Might have contributed.
But when doctors want to strike for reasons including access to training and bad working conditions, the public seems to vilify them