Can These Diet Changes Help You Live Longer?
We are living longer lives, but it seems that we are not ageing well. Research published this week suggests that we are spending more of our life in ill health.
The UK Health Foundation has found that our average healthy life expectancy (that’s the number of years we can expect to live free from disease or disability) has dropped by two years in the last decade.
Although the average life expectancy is around 82 years, it seems that our healthy life expectancy is around 63.7 for men and 60.9 for women. Poverty, poor housing and lifestyle factors are to blame. We are the fattest nation in western Europe and our mental health is poor. Something needs to change.
Excerpted from MSN
