Food and Alcoholic Drinks more Dangerous than Smoking
While the influence of smoking cigarettes is decreasing in economically developed countries, smoking rates are raising in developing countries, especially in South East Asia, Latin America and Africa.
In general, smoking rates started to increase with progressing socioeconomic development and increasing levels of available income. Smoking rates later decline with ameliorations in education and increasing anti-smoking efforts.
But in Australia smoking is not the biggest health problem, only because Australians can be characterized in this way: people which smoking less, getting thicker, drinking at dangerous levels and living alone in greater numbers.
According to a recent study, the Australians major health problem is binge drinking than smoking tobacco products.
Statistics show that levels of risky drinking among Australians have remained stable at about 11 to 13 percent in the three years to 2007-08, with one in seven men and one in nine women drinking in a dangerous method.
Researchers declared that men in general prefer to drink beer, but younger males favor spirits and pre-mixed alcoholic drinks. They also found that younger women also were more likely to consume spirits compared with older females, who almost of them drink wine.
The nation’s other dangerous vice is food. Statistics show that 37 percent of all Australians adults were classified as overweight in 2007-08, and another quarter was obese.
Although, men were statistically weighty than women in these categories, females were more likely to be badly obese than males.
More alarming is that a quarter of all children aged between five and 17 were overweight or obese in 2007-08, up four percentage points from 1995 levels.
And also because unhealthy food intake the number of gastric degradation surgeries has grown as well, up 800 percent over the last decade. There were found 13,600 bariatric procedures, such as gastric banding and other gastric reduction surgeries, in 2008 alone.
Sue Taylor, a spokeswoman explained: “One of the big concerns coming out of our health statistics is obesity. We’ve seen really big increases there, literally and metaphorically, over the last 13 years. Drinking is just part of Australian culture, and many Australians drink alcohol on a regular basis. The encouraging thing is that rates of risky drinking drop off amongst women when they’re in their peak child-bearing age.”
However the number of Australian smokers has declined overall by 24 percent, this is good news.
