The Dutch are smoking and drinking less, but half are overweight
1 week, 5 days ago

The Dutch are smoking and drinking less, but half are overweight

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Some 18% of Dutch adults smoke, 6% are heavy drinkers and half are overweight, according to the latest edition of the CBS’s annual health survey. Fewer people smoked and drank last year when compared with 10 years ago but the number of people who are too heavy remained the same, the statistics agency said. The aim to bring down the number of smokers to 5% by 2040 set down in the government health agreement is far from becoming a reality, CBS said, but the figure for heavy alcohol use is nearing the target of 5%. Weight is also related to income, with people on the lower income scale more at risk of being overweight than higher income groups, the research showed.

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Half of Dutch adults overweight as smoking and drinking decline
1 week, 3 days ago

Half of Dutch adults overweight as smoking and drinking decline

NL Times  

While the number of smokers and heavy drinkers in the Netherlands continues to fall, obesity remains one of the country’s most persistent public health issues. The latest Leefstijlmonitor, a study conducted by the CBS, RIVM, and other research institutes, highlights that nearly half of all Dutch adults are overweight, with severe obesity rates increasing over the past decade. This trend …

Nearly two-thirds of Dutch will be overweight by 2050: RIMV
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4 months, 1 week ago

Nearly two-thirds of Dutch will be overweight by 2050: RIMV

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The percentage of Netherlands residents who are overweight will increase significantly in the coming years. “Overweight is increasing and is also starting earlier in life,” the RIVM said. “Once someone is overweight, it is very difficult to lose it,” the RIVM said, adding that its study did not consider new developments, like health insurers reimbursing weight loss medication. Overweight is …

Obesity tripled in Netherlands in 40 years
1 year ago

Obesity tripled in Netherlands in 40 years

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Last year, 16 percent of people over 20 in the Netherlands were obese or seriously overweight, according to Statistics Netherlands. That is three times as many as about 40 years ago, notes the organization, which collaborated with the RIVM health institute for the Health Survey/Lifestyle Monitor. In total, 51 percent of all Dutch people aged 20 and older were overweight …

More youngsters are too heavy, but obesity rate is unchanged
1 year, 10 months ago

More youngsters are too heavy, but obesity rate is unchanged

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Some 17% of the under-25s in the Netherlands were too heavy last year, with young adults, in particular, likely to be overweight, according to new figures out on Thursday. Overall, the percentage of children and young adults who weigh too much is up by two percentage points on eight years ago, but there has been no increase in the proportion …

More youngsters are too heavy, but obesity rate is unchanged
1 year, 10 months ago

More youngsters are too heavy, but obesity rate is unchanged

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Some 17% of the under-25s in the Netherlands were too heavy last year, with young adults, in particular, likely to be overweight, according to new figures out on Thursday. Overall, the percentage of children and young adults who weigh too much is up by two percentage points on eight years ago, but there has been no increase in the proportion …

Number of heavy drinkers has remained unchanged since 2014
1 year, 11 months ago

Number of heavy drinkers has remained unchanged since 2014

NL Times  

Eight percent of adults in the Netherlands were heavy drinkers last year, Statistics Netherlands reported. In the prevention agreement, the government and various social organizations agreed to reduce the number of heavy drinkers to 5 percent or less by 2040. Nearly 80 percent of Netherlands residents aged 18 or older consumed alcohol in the year before answering CBS’s questions for …

NL residents eating healthier, but not yet healthy enough
2 years, 1 month ago

NL residents eating healthier, but not yet healthy enough

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Netherlands residents have been eating and drinking healthier over the past years. In its VCP, the RIVM looked at the daily meals of Netherlands residents between the ages of 7 and 69 between 2019 and 2021 and compared the results with previous surveys. Vegetable consumption increased from 128 grams per day in 2007-2010 to 135 grams in 2012-2016 and now …

Obese NL residents more often happy with their weight
3 years, 7 months ago

Obese NL residents more often happy with their weight

NL Times  

It is increasingly common for Netherlands residents who are seriously overweight to be satisfied with how much they weigh. Between 2018 and 2020, an average of 26 percent of severely overweight adults were satisfied with how much they weighed. Moreover, a relatively large number of elderly and young people are also satisfied with their weight. Last year, 37 percent of …

NL still far from reaching healthy lifestyle targets
4 years ago

NL still far from reaching healthy lifestyle targets

NL Times  

The number of occasional smokers and excessive drinkers in the Netherlands decreased slightly last year, but the number of heavy drinkers and overweight people remained about stable, according to the 2020 Lifestyle Monitor by Statistics Netherlands, the RIVM and the Trimbos Institute. The number passive smokers, non-smoking Dutch adults who inhale second-hand smoke from a smoker near them, decreased last …

More Dutch people are sticking to one glass of wine a day
5 years ago

More Dutch people are sticking to one glass of wine a day

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More people in the Netherlands are having no more than one alcoholic drink a day or are quitting alcohol altogether, new figures from the national statistics agency CBS show. ‘Every alcoholic drink does damage to the body,’ spokeswoman for the Trimbos addiction and mental health institute Karin Monshouwer told broadcaster Nos. Nevertheless, there is still much work to do, for …

More Dutch people are sticking to one glass of wine a day
5 years ago

More Dutch people are sticking to one glass of wine a day

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More people in the Netherlands are having no more than one alcoholic drink a day or are quitting alcohol altogether, new figures from the national statistics agency CBS show. ‘Every alcoholic drink does damage to the body,’ spokeswoman for the Trimbos addiction and mental health institute Karin Monshouwer told broadcaster Nos. Nevertheless, there is still much work to do, for …

More Netherlands residents sticking to one glass of alcohol per day
5 years ago

More Netherlands residents sticking to one glass of alcohol per day

NL Times  

More and more people in the Netherlands do not drink alcohol at all or at most one glass per day, thereby complying with the Health Council guideline on alcohol use. Last year 41 percent of adults said they do not drink alcohol or limit themselves to one glass a day, compared to 37 percent five years earlier. Two thirds of …

Cannabis, cocaine use in NL on the rise; fewer drug related deaths
5 years ago

Cannabis, cocaine use in NL on the rise; fewer drug related deaths

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Around 220 thousand Netherlands residents used cannabis on a daily or nearly daily basis in 2018, compared to 140 thousand the year before. But the number of drug-related deaths decreased in 2018 compared to the year before, according to the National Drug Monitor 2019 by the Trimbos Institute. In 2018, 7.5 percent of the Netherlands' adult population had used cannabis …

Some 2.6 million Netherlands residents obese
5 years ago

Some 2.6 million Netherlands residents obese

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The number of adults and children in the Netherlands who are overweight or obese doubled since 1990, according to figures from Statistics Netherlands. In the run-up to World Obesity Day, doctors and scientists call on the government to give more attention to this issue, they said in a statement released by the Maastricht University Medical Center. Although nutrition and physical …

Netherlands has few smokers compared to other countries
5 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands has few smokers compared to other countries

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Internationally, the Netherlands has a relatively low percentage of smokers, according to figures from the OECD publication Health at a glance 2019 that Statistics Netherlands released on Thursday. The percentage of daily smokers in the Netherlands fell from 23 percent in 2007 to 17 percent in 2017, just under the 18 percent average in OECD countries. Austria and Slovakia saw …

Half of Dutch want smokers to pay higher health insurance premiums
5 years, 6 months ago

Half of Dutch want smokers to pay higher health insurance premiums

NL Times  

A large part of the Dutch population want people with an unhealthy lifestyle to pay more for their health insurance, according to a study by Statistics Netherlands. 52 percent of Dutch want smokers to have a higher premium for the basic health insurance package. In the Netherlands, everyone currently pays the same basic health insurance premium, regardless of their lifestyle. …

Amsterdam young adults drinking, smoking less; using more cocaine
5 years, 6 months ago

Amsterdam young adults drinking, smoking less; using more cocaine

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While alcohol remains the number one cause of addiction problems in Amsterdam,young adult residents of the capital are drinking less than they did in 2000. There are also fewer smokers, though cocaine use increased, according to the newest Antenna, an annual study by Jellinek and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences into the alcohol and drug use of Amsterdam young adults, …

Sharp increase in Dutch seeking aid to quit smoking
5 years, 7 months ago

Sharp increase in Dutch seeking aid to quit smoking

NL Times  

The demand for help to quit smoking grew explosively in the Netherlands over the past six years. Last year around 40 thousand people asked health insurers VGZ, CZ and Menzis for anti-smoking courses or medication, 12 times more than the 3,200 Dutch who sought such help in 2012, AD reports. The number of smokers who sought serious hep in quitting …

Quarter of Dutch young people overweight
5 years, 11 months ago

Quarter of Dutch young people overweight

NL Times  

Last year 15.8 percent of children and young people, between the ages of 2 and 25, were overweight, compared to 12.5 percent in 2000. Weight problems are most common among children and young people with a non-western migration background, with 25.1 percent being overweight, according to the stats office. 67 percent of young adults were satisfied and 11 percent dissatisfied …

Half of Dutch overweight, nearly a quarter are smokers
6 years ago

Half of Dutch overweight, nearly a quarter are smokers

NL Times  

The number of Dutch adults who smoke and drink are slowly decreasing, but the number of overweight people in the Netherlands is still stable, according to the Health Survey and Lifestyle Monitor for 2018 by Statistics Netherlands and public health service RIVM. Last year 50 percent of Dutch were overweight, 22.4 percent smoked at least sometimes, and 9 percent were …

Eight percent of Dutch youth psychologically unhealthy
6 years, 4 months ago

Eight percent of Dutch youth psychologically unhealthy

NL Times  

Between 2015 and 2017 eight percent of Dutch 12 to 25-year-olds were psychologically unhealthy, according to Statistics Netherlands' health survey. Ten years ago 7 percent of Dutch young people were psychologically unhealthy. Psychologically unhealthy young people also report more long-term physical illnesses than their psychologically healthy peers. 65 percent of psychologically unhealthy young people rate their own health as less …

Sharp increase in amount of alcohol consumed by Dutch men
6 years, 6 months ago

Sharp increase in amount of alcohol consumed by Dutch men

NL Times  

A decreasing number of Dutch consume alcohol, but those who do are drinking more and more, according to figures from the World Health Organization. According the the Dutch institution for alcohol policy STAP, the increase in alcohol consumption is especially significant among Dutch men, RTL Nieuws reports. "In 2010 15.1 liters of pure alcohol was consumed per drinking man, in …

More Dutch people are overweight, but most of them don't mind
6 years, 6 months ago

More Dutch people are overweight, but most of them don't mind

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Six in 10 people in the Netherlands are happy with how much they weigh, even though almost half the population is overweight, according to new research by the national statistics office CBS on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the CBS said one in five people categorised as obese have no problem with being so heavy, nor do just over half of the people …

More Dutch people are overweight, but most of them don't mind
6 years, 6 months ago

More Dutch people are overweight, but most of them don't mind

Dutch News  

Six in 10 people in the Netherlands are happy with how much they weigh, even though almost half the population is overweight, according to new research by the national statistics office CBS on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the CBS said one in five people categorised as obese have no problem with being so heavy, nor do just over half of the people …

Netherlands' growing problem: 100,000 people are morbidly obese
6 years, 8 months ago

Netherlands' growing problem: 100,000 people are morbidly obese

Dutch News  

More people than ever in the Netherlands are morbidly obese despite a fall in the overall obesity rate, according to latest official figures. Around 100,000 people, or 0.9 per cent of the population, are classed as having the most severe of the three levels of obesity. Overall 14.2% of people are obese, two and a half times the rate at …

Netherlands' growing problem: 100,000 people are morbidly obese
6 years, 8 months ago

Netherlands' growing problem: 100,000 people are morbidly obese

Dutch News  

More people than ever in the Netherlands are morbidly obese despite a fall in the overall obesity rate, according to latest official figures. Around 100,000 people, or 0.9 per cent of the population, are classed as having the most severe of the three levels of obesity. Overall 14.2% of people are obese, two and a half times the rate at …

Amsterdam residents drink less, but use more hard drugs: health service
7 years, 9 months ago

Amsterdam residents drink less, but use more hard drugs: health service

NL Times  

Between 2012 and 2016 alcohol consumption in Amsterdam decreased, but the use of hard drugs like ecstasy, cocaine and amphetamine increased, health service GGD revealed in its Amsterdam Health Monitor 2016, Het Parool reports. For the Health Monitor te GGD questioned over 8,600 Amsterdam residents between the ages of 19 and 64 years about their physical and psychological health, daily …

Younger Dutch generations at higher risk of morbid obesity
9 years ago

Younger Dutch generations at higher risk of morbid obesity

NL Times  

Younger Dutch generations are more unhealthy than the generations preceding them and are at greater risk of morbid obesity and high blood pressure, according to a major study done by the RIVM, AD reports. As obesity increases the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, the consequences for public health are enormous. Less than …

Hip to be square: Dutch teenagers smoke, drink, and have less sex
9 years ago

Hip to be square: Dutch teenagers smoke, drink, and have less sex

Dutch News  

Dutch teenagers are among Europe’s least likely to engage in underage smoking, drinking, cannabis use and sex, according to a large scale study of children from 42 countries. The study surveyed 11, 13, and 15 year olds, and found that not only do Dutch children smoke, drink, and have less sex than most of their European peers, but they have …

Hip to be square: Dutch teenagers smoke, drink, and have less sex
9 years ago

Hip to be square: Dutch teenagers smoke, drink, and have less sex

Dutch News  

Dutch teenagers are among Europe’s least likely to engage in underage smoking, drinking, cannabis use and sex, according to a large scale study of children from 42 countries. The study surveyed 11, 13, and 15 year olds, and found that not only do Dutch children smoke, drink, and have less sex than most of their European peers, but they have …

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