What if Christmas happened every day: 5 surprising health predictions
Here's what year-round Christmas would do for your health – and your waistline
Most of us look forward to indulging over Christmas, on everything from mince pies to a few glasses of mulled wine. Diet plans and fitness regimes go out the window in favour of guilt-free festivity. After all, it’s a one-off time to celebrate. But what if Christmas happened every day?
Researchers at Prezzy Box have calculated the effect that a daily Christmas celebration would have on the nation’s health and wellbeing – and it’s not pretty. After reading these eye-opening facts, you’ll be glad that Christmas is restrained to just one day a year…
1 Over a year, each of us would consume 730,000 extra calories, leading to a weight gain of 14st 9lb – the same weight as 3½ Siberian Huskies.
2 Due to severe obesity, our life expectancy would drop by 10 years to 69 years. (This would save the government over £55,000 per person in pension payments…)
3 There would be a 40% increase in alcohol-related illness, costing the NHS £4.2 billion a year. Just £1 billion more than it would cost you to buy the entire Manchester City squad.
4 Children would lose 91¼ day’s worth of sleep a year due to being over-excited, which would lead to a lack of concentration, not to mention increased risk of diabetes and obesity.
5 It’s not looking great for Santa’s waistline either: he would consume a grand total of 33.5 billion mince pies. That’s a total of 9683 billion calories – enough to power 4689 billion light bulbs, and the equivalent of lighting the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree 937 million times.
Most of us look forward to indulging over Christmas, on everything from mince pies to a few glasses of mulled wine. Diet plans and fitness regimes go out the window in favour of guilt-free festivity. After all, it’s a one-off time to celebrate. But what if Christmas happened every day?
Researchers at Prezzy Box have calculated the effect that a daily Christmas celebration would have on the nation’s health and wellbeing – and it’s not pretty. After reading these eye-opening facts, you’ll be glad that Christmas is restrained to just one day a year…
1 Over a year, each of us would consume 730,000 extra calories, leading to a weight gain of 14st 9lb – the same weight as 3½ Siberian Huskies.
2 Due to severe obesity, our life expectancy would drop by 10 years to 69 years. (This would save the government over £55,000 per person in pension payments…)
3 There would be a 40% increase in alcohol-related illness, costing the NHS £4.2 billion a year. Just £1 billion more than it would cost you to buy the entire Manchester City squad.
4 Children would lose 91¼ day’s worth of sleep a year due to being over-excited, which would lead to a lack of concentration, not to mention increased risk of diabetes and obesity.
5 It’s not looking great for Santa’s waistline either: he would consume a grand total of 33.5 billion mince pies. That’s a total of 9683 billion calories – enough to power 4689 billion light bulbs, and the equivalent of lighting the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree 937 million times.
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