Poor diet and lack of exercise blamed for increase in obesity, blood pressure and diabetes Jeremy Laurance Thursday, 11 April 2013 We are living longer yet growing less healthy. That is the paradoxical conclusion reached by researchers who have found successive generations building up medical problems worse than those faced by their forbears. Life expectancy has grown dramatically in recent decades as a result of improved nutrition, housing and medical care. But today’s 40-year-olds are experiencing problems of excess weight, high blood pressure and diabetes similar to those now in their mid-fifties. The younger generation More…![]()
