Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy: fund prevention programmes to end the cycle of preventable morbidity

I thank Li and colleagues for their paper which adds to the significant body of evidence showing that adopting simple lifestyle modifications can improve life expectancy free of chronic disease.1 Health policy in Western countries does not give enough emphasis or funding to preventive care. In the UK, in the past five years, £900m (€1bn; $1.2bn) has been cut...