Food for thought - healthy life expectancy

cfw1994

SarahB16 said:

QrizB said:

HedgehogRulez said:

Cus said:

Silvertabby said:

It's not your postcode that determines your longevity - it's your genes and lifestyle.

Absolutely, but unfortunately it appears harder to have a healthy lifestyle in some postcodes than others

Presumably because people in certain areas tend to live unhealthy lifestyles. Here’s looking at you north England!

There's a lot of factors in play here.

Some of it's social. If all your friends and family eat deep-fried lard for dinner, you're likely to also be a regular deep-fried lard eater. You're unlikely to think "you know what, I'd really like a green salad this time". It also goes for smoking, drinking and so on.

Other parts are economic. Rich areas tend to have better hospitals, better schools, and the population can spend more on food and recreation.

And then there's environmental aspects. Pollution is bad for you and some parts of the UK have cleaner air/water than other parts (although that's improved a lot in the past 40 years, if you're in your 70s or 80s you'll have spent a lot of time earlier on life ingesting muck).

I could go on, but won't!

I would hate to live in a part of the UK where fluoride is added to the drinking water and thankfully I don't.  There is so much research showing the damage it does to your health.  There is a reason why you are told not to swallow your fluoride toothpaste.  

Not so sure about that: the amounts added to water are *minuscule* compared with toothpaste & are proven to help reduce tooth decay.  

I read that around 10% of England’s population has fluoride added to drinking water, which is about 6 million people. The most extensively fluoridated areas in England are the West Midlands and the Northeast of England. Historically, these are areas that have experienced high levels of deprivation.

Mind you: I see our area is not one of them.  Maybe explains why my mouth is not free of fillings 🫣
Wouldn’t concern me either way 🤷‍♂️

Ibrahim5

Just need to drink pure, natural, distilled water. Freshly deionised of course.

Linton

cfw1994 said:

SarahB16 said:

QrizB said:

HedgehogRulez said:

Cus said:

Silvertabby said:

It's not your postcode that determines your longevity - it's your genes and lifestyle.

Absolutely, but unfortunately it appears harder to have a healthy lifestyle in some postcodes than others

Presumably because people in certain areas tend to live unhealthy lifestyles. Here’s looking at you north England!

There's a lot of factors in play here.

Some of it's social. If all your friends and family eat deep-fried lard for dinner, you're likely to also be a regular deep-fried lard eater. You're unlikely to think "you know what, I'd really like a green salad this time". It also goes for smoking, drinking and so on.

Other parts are economic. Rich areas tend to have better hospitals, better schools, and the population can spend more on food and recreation.

And then there's environmental aspects. Pollution is bad for you and some parts of the UK have cleaner air/water than other parts (although that's improved a lot in the past 40 years, if you're in your 70s or 80s you'll have spent a lot of time earlier on life ingesting muck).

I could go on, but won't!

I would hate to live in a part of the UK where fluoride is added to the drinking water and thankfully I don't.  There is so much research showing the damage it does to your health.  There is a reason why you are told not to swallow your fluoride toothpaste.  

Not so sure about that: the amounts added to water are *minuscule* compared with toothpaste & are proven to help reduce tooth decay.  

I read that around 10% of England’s population has fluoride added to drinking water, which is about 6 million people. The most extensively fluoridated areas in England are the West Midlands and the Northeast of England. Historically, these are areas that have experienced high levels of deprivation.

Mind you: I see our area is not one of them.  Maybe explains why my mouth is not free of fillings 🫣
Wouldn’t concern me either way 🤷‍♂️

From further research: The target fluoride level in drinking water where it is added is 1 part per million, so extremely small.  A few areas naturally have fluoride levels higher than that. Most of the country doesn't have added fluoride.