Our contemporaries age as much as fifteen years faster than their ancestors. The reason lies in poor health, say Dutch scientists. Modern people more often than their grandparents suffer from hypertension, diabetes and obesity.
Researchers at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment studied the health status of 6,000 respondents aged 20-50 years for twenty-five years. Parameters were accurately tracked and recorded. As a result, scientists had to admit an unpleasant fact: the young generation has poor "metabolic health." Thirty young men turned out to be much more obese than their fathers and grandfathers. Girls in their twenties are twice as likely to gain extra pounds by analogy with women who were born a decade earlier.
Both sexes were much more likely to suffer from diabetes and hypertension. According to Dr. Herben Hülsege, today forty-year-old women and men are so obese that their predecessors recorded it at only fifty-five. Scientists emphasize that modern people should first of all carefully monitor weight. Moreover, it’s not just to follow, but to fight with extra pounds with the right nutrition and physical activity. Researchers strongly recommend that people control weight, as it is the main cause of diseases that bring old age closer.
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