An Oxford Longevity study (half a million UK Biobank participants) just published their findings yesterday. Here’s what they found makes you live longer: Eating cheese Living in a house rather than a flat Living in a house with an open fire Living with a partner, Going to the gym Good/long education Tanning easily High household income On the other hand, these shorten your life: Feeling fed-up or tired Financial difficulties in the past two years Sleeping and napping too much These caused premature ageing: Being relatively shorter or plumper at the age of 10 Having a mother who smoked around birth Smoking oneself Being unemployed Living in a council house. The following had no effect whatsover: Alcohol consumption Meat, salt, vegetables or fruit consumption Pollution Noise Being breastfed Sleeping less than seven hours a night Loneliness
Alcohol consumption makes no difference. Yet you will still be harangued about more than 14 units of alcohol ( ever hear anyone order 3 units of alcohol please) being life threatening every time you attend a doctors or hospital no matter how irrelevant it is.
The report doesn't say that your level of alcohol consumption has no effect on how long you live, it would be rather ridiculous if it did.
It say it makes no difference. Can’t have much effect as non drinking countries are way down the list for life expectancy. Of course if people overdo it for years and have to stop because of it that is their fault.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-2...ctors-affect-health-and-ageing-more-our-genes Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes GLOBAL HEALTHHEALTHMEDICAL SCIENCESRESEARCH A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity) and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. The researchers used data from nearly half a million UK Biobank participants to assess the influence of 164 environmental factors and genetic risk scores for 22 major diseases on ageing, age-related diseases, and premature death. The study is published in Nature Medicine. Key findings: environmental factors explained 17% of the variation in risk of death, compared to less than 2% explained by genetic predisposition (as we understand it at present); of the 25 independent environmental factors identified, smoking, socioeconomic status, physical activity, and living conditions had the most impact on mortality and biological ageing; smoking was associated with 21 diseases; socioeconomic factors such as household income, home ownership, and employment status, were associated with 19 diseases; and physical activity was associated with 17 diseases; 23 of the factors identified are modifiable; early life exposures, including body weight at 10 years and maternal smoking around birth, were shown to influence ageing and risk of premature death 30-80 years later; environmental exposures had a greater effect on diseases of the lung, heart and liver, while genetic risk dominated for dementias and breast cancer.
Was she listening, or did she roll her eyes like your son did on Saturday? The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Perhaps, but he told me you were drinking Fosters on the train to Hull, multi-faceted as someone once said. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I don’t think that’s true, or isn’t in my experience. I was at the GP last week and despite the reason I was there being potentially linked to alcohol consumption he asked me how much I drank, and when I told him he said, well that’s a bit more that 14 units but they keep changing the guidance anyway…you’ll be fine
Well my answer always is I will tell you if you can tell me why and how they arrived at that figure.And they can’t.
I Fosters and 1 Carling. Only drank them because they were freebies. He only gave me them because he was trying to get a photo of me drinking them to hand on to you. But I wasn’t giving him that opportunity.
I'd rather go thirsty than drink the gravy you do, also I'm sure Groucho had a saying to suit. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
The people who built an Empire and won two World Wars weren’t drinking fizzy pop. This country has gone downhill since it was made widely available in the 1970s.
