Unhealthy Lifestyles – what are we doing to ourselves?
We walk less, cycle less, drive more, eat more fatty foods and carbohydrates, spend more time sitting in front of TVs and computers and work for longer hours. The wellbeing effects of healthy exercise, healthy diets, taking quality time out and relaxing and connecting with nature have been widely publicised and promoted but are not widely adopted in the majority of people’s lives, often simply because we find ourselves too busy. Obesity, cancer, high blood-pressure, diabetes, chronic heart disease, many of these are increasingly being linked to the way we live in the early 21st century, eating easily-prepared processed food, working long hours in sedentary jobs, driving rather than walking so as to save time, as well as the stress arising from just trying to keep our heads above financial water. If current trends continue, these illnesses and their causes will only increase. Perhaps, however, it is time, as part of the wider rethink this plan represents, to stop and re-evaluate, and to think what a truly healthy society might actually look like, and then, how we might actually get there.
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