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Rising European life expectancy undermined by obesity: WHO
Life expectancy in Europe continues to increase but obesity and the growing proportion of people who are overweight risks reversing this trend, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday.
In its European Health Report, covering 53 countries in a vast geographical area from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the UN agency found well-being is the highest in the world but varies widely within the region.
Average life expectancy from birth has increased from 76.7 years in 2010 to 77.8 years in 2015. Women continue to live longer than men—81.1 years compared to 74.6 years for men, although the gap has slightly narrowed.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:59AM (4 children)
Your experience sounds very similar to mine.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:33PM (3 children)
A guy I knew lost weight with a meat heavy diet but 1. I dunno how much he kept it up afterwards, 2. he took meat from friends in Slovenia which has a good tradition. Dieting on the average fast food meat sounds like a convoluted long term suicide plan to me.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:45PM
The average fast food "meat" isnt meat. It has sugar and other crap added to it. You really just need to just cook your own food to do it. Even salads or dressing will have weird sugar added to it. If you have a fridge, you can cook all the meat and make all the salad you want in a couple hours one day of the week and then be good for the rest.
If you are going to eat it anyway, it will still be better to eat fast food "meat" without the bread though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:41PM (1 child)
I didn't eat any fast food, but yeah, it's hard to keep up on a heavy meat diet. I didn't do it for any particular reason other than I wanted to see what would happen. I do eat a lot more meat now than I used to as I was practically a vegetarian before.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:34PM
If you are choosing a diet too "heavy" on any one food something is wrong.