Living a healthy lifestyle can help beat the statistics scientists make for all aspects of everyday life. Our health as a nation has proven to be positive since our life expectancy, determined by the Office of National Statistics, has increased in all regions of the UK. In England, newborn baby boys were expected to live 5.9 and 5.3 (respectively, from 73.7 to 79.5), years longer than the expectancy determined for them in 1991 to 1993. Newborn girls had an increase of 4.1 years from 79.1 years in 1991 to 1993, to 83.2 2012 to 2014.
Over the years many advancements in science such as cancer treatment as well as various vaccines for modern day illnesses have aided to the consistent increase in average life expectancy. Although we have gone through years of change. it seems that over the last two decades some regions still have increased the gap between the highest and lowest life expectancy. The majority of local areas in the bottom 50 with the lowest life expectancy at birth (68% for boys and 70% for girls) were in the North East, the North West and Wales. The most rapid increase in male life expectancy over the past 2 decades were in London (7.0 years), the North East, (6.0 years) and the North West (5.8 years), whereas the East and South West had the slowest rate at (5.4 and 5.3 years respectively.
It’s recorded that in the wealthiest parts of the UK, let’s say the capital as example, a man can live up to 88 years, while in poorer areas life expectancy was at 71 years. Though wealth, education, economic standing had an effect on these people, this does not make it inevitable that living outside the capital will result in you living less. In fact, there are other jobs that are not necessarily based in the capital and can still provide a standard well lived life. If we had more of a way to cut losses to the economy by reducing the illnesses associated with work, there would be economic benefits.
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Nothing beats happiness
You say that but I say 5 a day is all you need.
I say money is what you need. A ton of it.
Money can never buy you long term happiness
Try living in London broke and you will change your mind in whiff.
Don’t forget the vicious landlords and agents that nothing but sharks
All the welfare cuts will make it difficult to live longer at this rate.
Going vegan is the best way to live longer
Totally agree, 5 a day is everything you need.
Vegetarian living actually gives you longer life.