EUROPEAN health habits worth trying

Research suggests that due to our unhealthy lifestyles, the British are going to die an average of two years earlier than our European neighbours. Why? ‘Obesity is the biggest killer in the UK after smoking,’ says Dr Arun Ghosh, a Liverpool GP and media medic. ‘We've adopted a US diet full of processed food and red meat, which has class-one evidence from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for causing cancer.’ We are, in fact, the third fattest nation in Europe.

‘High stress levels lead to unhealthy self-medicating practices like smoking and drinking alcohol, which are associated with a shortened life expectancy,’ says Dr Sara Kayat of GPDQ, a doctor-on-demand service. ‘Plus, a sedentary