OUR LIFESTYLES ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN OUR GRANDPARENTS’

Unlike our modern lifestyle, which is based on technological advances and plenty of amenities
that improve our life, we could think that our grandparents lived worse than us in their youth.
However, in my view, there are certain facts that suggest that their lifestyle was much
healthier and relaxed than our stressful life.

First of all, they usually ate better than us. Grandparents used to eat season local products;
such as: milk, fish, fruit and vegetables. In fact, the way cook was healthier because they ate
home-made food. Yet, this kind of diet is losing in recent generations because cooking is not
so important in our lives nowadays. Every day we eat processing food, pre-cooked or fried
because apparently, it does not have enough time to cook or there is no desire to do it. What
is more, we often think that cook home-made food will take more time than asking for a pizza.
As a consequence, there is more overweight and hearth diseases.

Resting is other issue that you have to pay special attention. Sleeping enough hours is vital to
have energy in order to do the daily activities. According to many studies, adults need to sleep
8 hours at least. Children, by contrast, have to rest 12 hours. In the past our grandparents´ life
was quite simple, part of their time was used to work and the other was for family. During the
week they usually woke up early to go to work and in the evenings they went to bed early. So,
they had more energy for spending time with their families than today´s people who sleep less
hours than in the past, on average 3-4 hours, because of work, watching a tv program or
spending their leisure time with friends. For this reason, they are more tired as well as
irritating during the day and sometimes some of them have to take sleeping pills to sleep. As a
consequence, those develop addictions and diseases that get worse their health.

Yet, all in the present could not be so bad because we have more amenities, which make us life
easier, such as: technology and electronic gadgets to do any job faster or medical advances
that is healing many risky diseases and lengthen the life expectancy.

To sum up, I believe, on the whole, life in the past was better than in the present because their
life conditions were healthier and they had more conscious about familiar life and how to
enjoy it