The price of our longevity

15. November 2019.

In the last 70 years, on a global scale, life expectancy has increased by more than 20 years. However, out of these 20 years that we live longer, we generally spend an entire decade in poor health or even disability, and under medication due to “chronic diseases”, which our great-grand mothers and fathers probably did not even know existed. In fact, chronic diseases are now responsible for 80% of disabilities worldwide, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and mental illnesses. Most of them are simply the consequence of what we eat and drink, how much we exercise and how we respond to stress. It is as simple as that.

So where do we do wrong?

Check out this timely interview with Dr. Katarina Melzer‘ at GRAND TV.

U poslednjih 70 godina, na globalnom nivou, životni vek se produžio za čitavih 20 godina. Od tih 20 godina, koliko duže živimo, čitavu deceniju provodimo pod lekovima i u lošem zdravstvenom stanju koje je prouzrokovano takozvanim „hroničnim bolestima“, za koje naše pra-bake i očevi većinom nisu ni znali da postoje. Hronične bolesti su sada odgovorne za 80% invaliditeta širom sveta, uključujući kardiovaskularne bolesti, rak, hronične respiratorne bolesti, dijabetes kao i mentalna oboljenja. Većina njih je uzrokovano ničim drugim nego načinom na koji jedemo i pijemo (uključujći alkohol I cigarete), koliko vežbamo i kako reagujemo na stres.

Gde onda grešimo?

Pogledajte ovaj intervju sa Dr. Katarinom Melzer na GRAND TV (sa engleskim prevodom).