To give you a flavour of the report, the biggest driver of disease among those who are living longer is obesity. Better NHS treatment means that Britons are living longer but lousy lifestyles mean this disastrously translates into extra time for people to clock up more costly chronic diseases – frequently more than one, often many more. ![]() It explains what I call the “British disease conundrum”. Hot on the heels of this cheerful optimism was a grim, head-in-hands report from the Health Foundation that spells out the financial impact of Britain’s national experiment in a consequence-free lifestyle mindset. Widespread adoption of this advice could save this entire country from crashing headlong into a financial early grave caused by exploding healthcare costs. Taking the right decisions on drugs, sleep, weight, exercise, smoking, stress, friendships and boozing could mean up to 24 extra years for the most committed health-hackers such as me, their calculations project. Xuan-Mai Nguyen, the lead author, reassures us that we can turn things around later in life by embracing her “eight healthy habits of longer, healthier life”. Looking back at my young self, this sounds like terrible news. So a big hand to the authors of the study report for forcing us to acknowledge the obvious. It surely did not need to be proved, but it is in our nature to deny the consequences of our habits when they are often so hard to kick. There’s an early death for people who smoke, toke and booze too much, who are stressed, cantankerous and knackered, and prefer junk food to jogging.
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