A full quarter of Russian men expire before their 55th natal day . equate that to America ’s 1 % and the UK ’s 7 % . Why the disparity ? There ’s a ripe chance it has something to do with the country ’s vodka consumption .
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Via USA Today :
research worker tracked about 151,000 grownup men in the Russian metropolis of Barnaul , Byisk and Tomsk from 1999 to 2010 . They interviewed them about their drinking habits and , when about 8,000 later died , followed up to monitor their causes of death .
The risk of pass away before age 55 for those who articulate they drink three or more half - l bottles of vodka a week was a shocking 35 % .
It ’s not exonerated how many Russian man drink three bottles or more a week . Lead researcher Sir Richard Peto of Oxford University said the mediocre Russian grownup drink 20 cubic decimeter of vodka per year while the average Briton drinks about three cubic decimetre of spirits .
“ The pace of men exit untimely in Russia is totally out of communication channel with the residuum of Europe , ” [ said lead researcher Sir Richard Peto of Oxford University ] . “ There ’s also a sound crapulence polish in Finland and Poland but they still have nothing like Russia ’s peril of end . ”
The investigator ’ finding are published in the former issue ofTheLancet .
[ The LancetviaUSA Today ]
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