People in my age group are experiencing poorer physical and mental health than their elders at the same stage. Is this down to UPFs and booze, or something more complicated?
I almost choked on my bird-food breakfast recently, reading that gen Xers are in worse health than boomers. Research by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, on approximately 8,000 participants aged about 50 from the 1970 British Cohort Study, found that my generation is experiencing “worse physical and mental health across adulthood than earlier-born generations”.
Come on! How? We have better health education and pharmaceuticals than any previous generation, we’ve been browbeaten into cultivating our microbiomes and hitting our step counts, harassed to stand up (sitting’s worse than smoking!), jump around (protect your bones!) and pop creatine (unsure). Yet we’re still unhealthier than our elders?
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