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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, @09:16AM (2 children)
What a pile of bullshit. Literally. It's EATING TOO FUCKING MUCH that is causing the problem. Maybe you can also point fingers at plastics and similar obesogens as contributors, but don't bullshit about "grains as meat substitute". How stupid do you have to be to believe that shit? Ask your grandma about how life was 80 years ago. or 60 years ago. Or during WW2, when there was NO MEAT and not enough food. Or after WW2, when there was enough food but meat was considered a **luxury**, especially in Eastern Europe. Somehow, people were not fucking fat. Eating all that bread and potatoes and not fucking fat. The only fat people were the people that boozed a lot in addition to eating too much meat.
Maybe start blaming obesity on refugees next? Has about the same amount of facts as your statement.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Thursday September 13 2018, @09:50AM
ask you grandma 60 or 70 years ago...well people just did not live that much at the time for this to be a problem
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:34AM
1) Eating grains increases your appetite
2) People with increased appetite will eat more
Obviously number two isnt possible unless food is available, so you will not see it leading to obesity in those cases. Every single point in you rant supports what I described entirely.
Ask yourself this, which comes first: eating or hunger? Its hunger, people eat more than they should because they are hungrier than they should be. So the best way to eat less is to feel less hungry...