High cholesterol levels in Western/Irish society are caused by diets high in fatty convenience foods and fast food, more sedentary lifestyles due to automated workplaces and less manual labor, and increases in wealth that enable convenience food dependence instead of healthier options, leading to obesity epidemics on par with the United States.
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Cholesterol
1. Causes of High Cholesterol Levels
in Western/Irish Society
• Diet
• Work
• Wealth &
• Lifestyle £ $ €
2. Diet
• High consumption of fatty foods – convenience foods (breakfast
rolls) & fast food
• Breakfast rolls as a staple diet
• Irish obese epidemics on a par with US equivalents
• Increase in binge eating
3. Work
• Increase in automated workplaces
• Virtual eradication of manual work
• Knock-on effect of wide availability of cars
4. Wealth
£ + $ + € +
• Increase in wealth & high
dependence on convenience foods
£ - $ - € -
• The reversal of the above trend &
its knock-on effect
5. Lifestyle
• Increase in sedentary lifestyles
• Decrease in numbers participating in
sports
• Differences between dancehalls & night
clubs
Editor's Notes
Diet – Fast food as dented by Big Mac (courtesy of McDonald’s) Top Left
Work – More automation and less physical work due to technological advances (courtesy of Thatcher’s Cider Brewery, Sandford, Somerset – www.thatcherscider.co.uk)
Wealth – Currency symbols, which are self explanatory!
Lifestyle – A typical “Couch Potato” (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Key to Pictures
Top Left: Breakfast Roll (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Top Right: Big Mac (Courtesy of McDonald’s)
Bottom Row: A typical binge eater! (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
In the upper row of images, first form left is an automated kegging plant at Tatcher’s Cider Brewery (www.thacthersbrewery.co.uk) in Sandford Somerset. This and the middle picture (courtesy of Wikipedia), provide evidence that there is now a lot less physical work in workplaces by comparison with the right hand picture, which is of coopers in Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie in Scotland (www.speysidecooperage.co.uk)
The bottom left hand picture gives evidence of the wide availability of cars. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
The bottom right hand picture is an “Irish solution to an Irish Problem.” The Dublin Bikes scheme as pioneered by Dublin City Council to promote cycling as a healthier alternative in commuting to and from work as a recreational activity.
The Dublin Bikes station outside the Customs House is depicted in the picture. For further information visit www.dublinbikes.ie.
Picture courtesy of www.dublinbikes.ie.
Contributory factors to the increases in sedentary lifestyles as demonstrated by the left hand and middle pictures
Contrast between night clubs (colour picture) and dance halls (black & white picture)
High levels of alcohol consumption and less physical activity in night clubs, where as there is less alcohol consumed in dance halls & higher volumes of physical activity.
