UK has one of the lowest life expectancies among rich countries. Why? (www.euronews.com)

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[-] Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After 12 years in the UK I'm going out on a limb and say the answer is "they eat like shit".

A shocking amount of my former colleagues refused to eat veggies or fruit. I mean, ANY kind of veggies.

I couldn't wrap my head around that. No wonder they have a shorter life span, what do you expect?

Ah also: they drink like fucking sailors on leave all days of the week.

[-] Gleaming0167@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Probably also doesn't help that they freeze to death in their homes.

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

And eat hamsters

[-] taanegl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Love me gravy

Love me cutlets

Love me pints

Love me cuntry

Simple as *has stroke*

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Why? Because our government has spent the past ~13 years carefully dismantling all the small systems that go into making a country run smoothly.

Courts, justice? Broken. Policing? Broken. Prisons / probation? Broken. Rail? Broken. Schools? Privatised and broken. Energy sector? Profiting nicely, but for shareholders / other countries, broken for us. Water? Same. Healthcare? Very nearly broken, GPs at breaking point, strikes in the hospitals. Mental healthcare, broken and almost non-existent until you're in crisis. Trade? LOL, you guessed it; broken.

[-] sycamore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Remember 2010 when everything was perfect?

[-] Transcendant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not! Things certainly weren't perfect, but they weren't this broken.

[-] wolfylow@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Greggs.

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

You only have to go to pretty much any other European country to see the difference that not having Greggs and Weatherspoons makes. Like, there's still slim good looking middle aged people, they're not all bloated out of breath potatoes.

[-] InverseParallax@voyager.lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Scotland.

But seriously, the wealth distribution is crazy, and the diet is pretty bad too.

[-] NeoLikesLemmy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Wait... why are you comparing rich countries and UK?

[-] OnionFutures@vlemmy.net 8 points 1 year ago

This is a bizarre article.

In the UK, average life expectancy at birth was 81 years, according to 2021 data from the World Bank - the same as in Slovenia, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria.

To frame that as "the UK has one of the lowest life expectancies among rich countries" is... misleading, to say the least. Why does Germany have one of the lowest life expectancies among rich countries? Why does Denmark?

[-] Electricorchestra@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I was hoping they wouldn't say all the pints. Thank God for that.

[-] rebul@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Just got back from a 2 week tour of the UK...practically all food is fried.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Can't imagine the chips help.

[-] sadreality@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Saw some youtube content on what they eat... holyshit. WW2 is over!!!

America has similar problem but no nearly as bad. Kids don't know where vegetables and eggs come from. Generations eating trash...

[-] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Except we US are worse than the UK. We just have choices fried ice cream, fried stick of butter, fried Twinkies.

You can get fresh fruit and veggies but we subsidize our beeft and corn.

Also don't forget your high fructose corn syrup in almost all our sodas. We make sure you get diabetes quick so we can prop up our insulin execs and skimp on social security. Our medical expenses are through the roof but that's from a different bucket.

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