| Your Child The GrandparentAt the turn of the century | | | | adherence to a healthier lifestyle, changing eating and |
| the life expectancy of an urban dweller in the UK was | | | | exercise habits. If we educate our children to be active |
| around 50 years, today our children may have a life | | | | every day, and to eat a balanced diet ,we are instilling |
| expectancy as high as 100 years. Medical advances | | | | in them habits which should last a life time, and make |
| may preserve them through illness for longer. They will | | | | that lifetime last longer.The western lifestyle |
| spend more of their lives as older people, but possible | | | | encourages over consumption of calories from |
| have more health problems associated with unhealthy | | | | low-quality unhealthy foods high in fat, salt and sugar. |
| living. The way that we raise them will impact upon the | | | | Heart Disease, Cancers and Strokes are the biggest |
| quality of their lives, and patterns set today may | | | | killers. A huge proportion of these deaths can be |
| protect them from a lingering but unhealthy older | | | | avoided by changing eating and exercise habits. These |
| age.At the moment 60% of people over the age of 50 | | | | are also concerns that bad health is impacting on the |
| are taking four or more prescription drugs. A majority | | | | fertility of westerners and that our children could suffer |
| of this medication could be made unnecessary through | | | | infertility along side ill-health. |