{"id":309539,"date":"2026-01-29T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309539\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:35:10","slug":"when-worrying-about-bills-or-rent-youre-not-in-salad-mode-why-irelands-health-gap-between-rich-and-poor-is-becoming-a-chasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309539\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When worrying about bills or rent, you\u2019re not in salad mode\u2019: Why Ireland\u2019s health gap between rich and poor is becoming a chasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhile the wealthy are leading healthier lifestyles, the less well off have fewer safe spaces to be physically active and greater exposure to junk food \u2013 leaving Ireland on course to become Europe\u2019s most obese country\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018The culture of exercise is shifting\u2019: There are now far more avenues of accessible types of exercise, but many can be expensive. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ttyImages_500886685.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u2018The culture of exercise is shifting\u2019: There are now far more avenues of accessible types of exercise, but many can be expensive. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The statistics don\u2019t lie \u2013 Ireland is getting healthier. We are living longer, alcohol consumption is down, and self-reported health outcomes are up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On a more anecdotal level, our social media feeds are ablaze with acquaintances running marathons and competing in Hyrox and Tryka fitness events, which involve running and high-intensity exercises. That\u2019s in between sea swimming and sauna sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the wealthy are leading healthier lifestyles, the less well off have fewer safe spaces to be physically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18,525,135,19,17,2519,3497],"class_list":{"0":"post-309539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-review-magazine","14":"tag-world-health-organization"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115977710768744590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}