Britain is the world’s booziest nation
December 7th, 2010 - 8:34 pm ICT by Aishwarya BhattLondon, Dec 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A new survey has concluded that Britain is the world’s most boozy country.
The survey further found that 84 percent of Brits are drinkers with most of them being regular drinkers. The study also found that averagely, 71 percent of the world’s populations drink. India is the country with least concentration of people that booze. Only about 27 percent of Indians have ever drunk in their lives.
During the survey, it was found that about ten percent of Brits took alcohol in everyday. 41 percent of Brits however admitted that they are regular drinkers. That is the highest concentration of regular drinkers anywhere in the world. The world’s average for regular drinkers is 17 percent. It also emerged that about 25 percent of the British population were smokers.
The United Kingdom however lags behind when it comes to the countries with the highest concentration of obesity. The country is fourth after the United States, Mexico and Australia.
The survey found that Brits were not taken healthy lifestyle so seriously. It was found that only about one in three Brits exercise. It was however found that that exercise last less than an hour a week.
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