When people are young and feel invincible, they seem to run away with the night after the night of smoking and excessive consumption.
But new research shows that such a festive lifestyle will wreak havoc on your health at the age of 36, and not only because the mouth of wood worsens as you get older.
Researchers in Finland followed 371 people throughout their lives, investigating how vices, including smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and consumption do not exercise affected health.
Kate Moss is engaged in what scientists have called “risky behavior”
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There has been relatively few consequences for drinking and smoking in their twenties, but from there, there is real in the old adage “living quickly, dying young”.
As people have reached thirty, the unhealthy habits have turned out to be involved in poor health, including higher depression rates, cancer, Heart disease, pulmonary disease and premature death. These damage remained consistent throughout the forties, from the 1950s and 60s.
Scientists said he was showing the importance of quitting smoking and reducing alcohol before hitting the average age, in order to prevent years of poor health.
The study, published in Annals of Medicine, supports a trend in celebrities to move on to well-being at the average age. Characters such as Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and Gwyneth Paltrow were all known to party in their twenties, but have since cut or abandoned alcohol.
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Dr. Tiia Kekalainen, a health scientist who worked on the study, said: “Our results underline the importance of fighting risky health behavior, such as smoking, strong consumption And physical inactivity, as soon as possible to avoid the damage they cause from construction over the years, leading to poor mental and physical health later in life.
“However, it is never too late to move to healthier habits. The adoption of healthier lifestyle habits also has higher age advantages. ”
The study involved data from hundreds of children born in the Finnish city of Jyvaskyla in 1959. They carried out health assessments when they were 27 years old and again when they were 36, 42, 50 and 61 years old. smoked, drunk and was inactive.
The three habits were associated with a drop in mental and physical health, the apparent effects when participants were in mid-Tentaine. Delivering three habits was particularly bad for long -term health.
Habits were linked to a range of non -infectious diseases such as heart disease and cancer, which cause nearly three -quarters of deaths worldwide. “By following a healthy lifestyle, an individual can reduce his risk of developing these diseases and reducing their early death,” said Kekalainen.