Without Christ and the Christian deliverance from debased and barbarian living, people’s health life expectancies drop – significantly. Before that, anti-Christian messianic states, pandering to the poor and deviant with social programs, perpetuate these problems. They know not God, therefore, they do not understand the nature of man, and for both reasons, they misdiagnose the problem, and administer a destructive solution.
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June 10, 2010
Scotland tops list for lifestyle health risks: study
PARIS (AFP) – Nearly every adult in Scotland is burdened with at least one major lifestyle risk factor, and 55 percent of the population are coping with three or more, according to a study released Friday. Looking at five health-threatening behaviours – smoking, heavy drinking, lack of exercise, poor diet, obesity – researchers found that twice as many Scottish men and women face a triple threat or worse than in any continental European country in which a similar study has been done. Only in England and the United States are levels of risk even remotely close.
“Scottish people are living dangerously,” said David Conway, a professor at the University of Glasgow and the main architect of the study. “Only 2.5 percent of the population have no risk factors at all. It is frightening,” he said in a phone interview, noting that the comparable figure in other rich nations was generally six or seven percent. Published in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Public Health, the study contributes to a growing interest in the accumulated impact of harmful lifestyle choices, Conway said.
Up to now, most research has focused only on individual risk factors, one at a time – smoking or drinking or overeating. “But unhealthy behaviours cluster. And the combination is synergistic, which increases the overall risk disproportionately,” he said. This has major implications for both healthcare systems and individuals trying to reduce their exposure to lifestyle disease. “When people have combined risk factors, it might be better to take a more holistic – or ‘whole patient’ – approach,” he added.