There is much about life in the Western world to be celebrated: food is plentiful, medicine is advanced and high-tech gizmos take manual labour out of our hands. But this lifestyle of bounty, convenience and speed has a serious flipside: a reliance on processed foods, lack of sleep, screen addiction, drinking to excess and inactivity.
And they’re all making us sick. These aspects of modern existence contribute to a slow burn of inflammation in our bodies that is linked with diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and dementia.
Published on February 15, 2023