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I suspect social networks have a lot to do with it.

Or, as they say in the actual article, "...reflects concerning worldwide trends in unhealthy lifestyle choices such as high fat, sugar, salt and alcohol intake, sedentary lifestyles with avoidance of exercise and smoking”.

And, as they were so close to writing, "reflections concerning worldwide trends".

The quality of thought in many environments and contexts can show as severely declined. Exposure is with certainty a possible factor impacting on blood pressure, whether it is brought to topic or not (one can perceive it). It is still unhealthy lifestyle.

Much more likely it's obesity, highly processed foods, lack of physical activity due to sitting at the computer, etc.

Most people spend most of their time sitting at computers on various forms of social networks, so you're both right.

The factors you mention definitely don’t help but you’d be surprised how much of HBP is just genetics. I’m slim, run at least three times a week and ran a marathon two years ago, don’t eat much meat, rarely drink, non smoker and yet I have HBP and had to start taking pills recently. In my case it doesn’t help that both parents suffer from the condition.

But saying that you have HBP == you live an unhealthy lifestyle is just not true.

This is actually a good observation, unreasonably downvoted. Obesity appears to be a viral disease, looking at its growth. Now the question to answer is, is the viral spread of obesity explained by social contagion or by bacteria.

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