According to the newspaper “Polska The Times” Poles are the most ill among the other European nations. Over 60 percent of men and women in the age over fifty assess their health as poor. Are we either in really bad health or we are natural born hypochondriacs? Well, there is another explanation - tiredness. Most of us in the age over fifty work hard sometimes 10 or 12 hours per day and usually we suffer from diseases of civilization like cardiovascular diseases (hypertensions, diabetes), cancers, depressions and obesity. Most of the people in that age started their careers in the era of communistic Poland, when there was no unemployment nor employees’ “rat race” in the companies. After really harsh change of the systems and due to the fall down of so many companies and state enterprises, they very had to work hard as never before.
There is also another reason of poor health of many Poles over the fifty. We don’t take care of ourselves - no preventative, bad eating habits, no exercises. Moreover… many of Poles is of the opinion that being over 50 it is bond to illness.
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