Britain
Scientific
Happiness Keeps Your Heart Healthy and Britain is Ballooning
- If being happy isn't reward enough for you, new research shows happiness can also keep you from having a heart attack. Researchers followed a group of almost 2,000 people for ten years, and during that time period the happiest people were 22% less likely to develop heart disease.
- British people: Not known for being outlandishly happy. But even if they were, it probably wouldn't be enough to save them from their latest predicament. According to the UK's National Heart Forum, if current trends continue, 8 out of 10 men in the UK will be overweight or obese by 2020.
Not a Snickers Ad
Great Britain vs. Wine
The British Government has declared war on obesity, and among its first targets are drinkers. According to British government intel, "The average wine drinker consumes an extra 2,000 calories a month - the equivalent of 184 bags of crisps." This comes via The Telegraph, which further notes: "Few middle class drinkers realise that a couple sharing a bottle of red wine a night are both consuming the equivalent of a Snickers chocolate bar in alcohol." Appalling. You'd never see the French government release such data.
Here's the problem: New Yorkers go from work to gym, and then out to dinner. Londoners skip the gym, go directly to the pub, and load up on "pork scratchings." (L.A. people, of course, drive to yoga, and then go for sushi.) Anyway, we blame the pork scratchings.