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Eat Less? Drink Less? in the Year of Dying too Soon We Need to Get Real
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Eat Less? Drink Less? in the Year of Dying too Soon We Need to Get Real
Anne Perkins
Wednesday 28 December 2016 06.52 EST
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/28/2016-year-
dying-too-soon-public-health-england-advice
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/j336m6c
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If you have got this far through 2016 without thinking about living and
dying, it seems safe to assume that you dont read much and you definitely
wont be reading this (unless maybe by some spooky coincidence I peg out on
the long walk I am about to set off on, and there is a macabre interest in
the serendipity of my last thoughts. In 2016, nothing can surprise). For
the rest of us, the years slowly unfurling scroll of the dead, and above
all of the dead too young, has been a stop-start conversation about the
lethal genius of creativity, about good lives and, above all, avoidable
deaths.
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Not much united those unwittingly cast in the biopic of 2016, the Year of
Dying Too Soon, subtitle: a cautionary tale about the consequences of
prolonged substance abuse, but I am willing to bet my walking boots that
most of them had one thing in common. Despite its solipsistic appeal, not
one would ever have taken the trouble to fill in Public Health Englands
healthy lifestyle questionnaire.
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There are several reasons for this confident assertion, but one is
acknowledged in the way the One You questionnaire, titled, How are you?
theres a hint there tries to sneak round the great big dilemma that
usually sabotages even the least ambitious of New Year resolutions. That
might be called the why should I stop doing something that makes me feel
good now just because it might make me ill (defined in a very broad
not-well kind of way) sometime much, much later on in my life dilemma.
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Everyone has a chain-smoking aunt who lived until she was 90, and some of
us have hard-drinking rellies who kept at it for as long as they could get
to the shops; and we all know of individual tragedies, of people who ran
marathons and never deviated from a life of sober moderation and still got
carried off by a lethal and incurable cancer at a cruelly youthful age.
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The only certainty in life is death. When and how you die can (but doesnt
necessarily) indicate how well you lived; that makes it a political
concern, though not half as much of a concern as what the process of our
dying is going to cost the survivors who are paying for the NHS.
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Public Health England (PHE) an outfit whose admirable purpose is, well,
encouraging public health tries to weasel round this with a cheery note
of positivity that hints at a degree of self-awareness. It knows that the
people visiting its site and working through its questionnaire are theirs
already. Because presumably just guessing here the people it most needs
to reach are the people who dont think about their health and are much
less troubled by the possible link between their lifestyle choices and
their future wellbeing than the moment they are in. I can say this
confidently because it is a feeling I strongly identify with.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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