Baby Boomers are partying too much: Heavy drinking is causing serious illness across the age group
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 by: Rhonda Johansson
(Natural News) Baby boomers seem to be spending their nights drinking, data from Public Health England suggest. This conclusion, while initially funny at first glance, is highlighting a very serious and growing problem facing adults today who are older than 55 years old. Official figures have just concluded that elderly people now comprise a large portion of alcoholics in Britain, with alcoholism being the sixth most common cause of disability among people who are in their 50s and 60s. Heavy drinking is attributed as one of the main causes of severe illnesses among baby boomers, including an increased risk of heart disease and alcohol-caused dementia.
Dr. Tony Rao who explained the figures in the British Journal of Psychiatry said that despite the baby boomer generation having a generally longer lifespan, many adults in this group drink too much. Inevitably, this leads to older patients being admitted for alcohol-related diseases which lowers their quality of life. Dr. Rao blames a “middle-class culture of drinking wine at home†as the reason for this phenomenon.
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