Research shows that young people today are not as healthy as they were twenty years ago. Why is this and can we do anything about it? by Doina

Recently some researches have shown that young people are sicker than their parents were even if lots of contagious sicknesses have been cured. 

There are many reasons, but the most important one is that they do not workout enough and the diet is completly wrong. As a matter of facts many teenagers eat junk food without limits while they are playing video games or watching TV, and that's bad. Also the consumption of alcohol smoking habit have increased damaging young people's health.

The situation was very different twenty years ago. Indeed there weren't the fast food or take away restaurants that we have. People lived closer to nature and they did more physical exercise.

Finally I think that what we can do for them is this: we can give them advice and explain the risks and just hope they will understand and begin having a healthier lifestyle, for their own life.