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2021-03-20 Science & Technology

Health declining in Gen X and Gen Y, national study shows

[Med Press] Recent generations show a worrying decline in health compared to their parents and grandparents when they were the same age, a new national study reveals.

Researchers found that, compared to previous generations, members of Generation X and Generation Y showed poorer physical health, higher levels of unhealthy behaviors such as alcohol use and smoking, and more depression and anxiety.

The results suggest the likelihood of higher levels of diseases and more deaths in younger generations than we have seen in the past, said Hui Zheng, lead author of the study and professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

"The worsening health profiles we found in Gen X and Gen Y is alarming," Zheng said.

"If we don't find a way to slow this trend, we are potentially going to see an expansion of morbidity and mortality rates in the United States as these generations get older."

Zheng conducted the study with Paola Echave, a graduate student in sociology at Ohio State. The results were published online yesterday (March 18, 2021) in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-20 06:57|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 The 'downside' appears somewhat uncertain, but perhaps Hui Zheng can recommend some sort of vaccine ?

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-20 07:01|| 2021-03-20 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2 18 hours a day in front of a computer?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-20 07:31|| 2021-03-20 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 And self-esteem based on Farcebook likes and nervously awaiting the next ping on their mobile devices. Both parents having to work as they grew up probably didn't help, either.

Posted by Clem 2021-03-20 08:36|| 2021-03-20 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 18 hours a day in front of a computer?

Wait until we see our latest crop of anti-social paranoid hypochondriacs who have been actively discouraged from doing outside the house things.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-20 11:17|| 2021-03-20 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Too little exercise and too much plastic (or bottled in plastic) food & drink. And maybe too many recreational drugs.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-03-20 11:32|| 2021-03-20 11:32|| Front Page Top

#6 What? Nothing about fluoride in the water? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Isn't there something about flushing all that birth control materials into the water system sometime back?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-20 12:25|| 2021-03-20 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 That and the gazillion pharmaceuticals that Americans gulp down like candy that gets pissed into the water.

Posted by Clem 2021-03-20 12:34|| 2021-03-20 12:34|| Front Page Top

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