Preference for managing health through medication—rather than through lifestyle change—has increased dramatically among Americans in the last decade.
This is according to the 2022 Food and Health Survey by the International Food Information Council (IFIC), which each year examines Americans’ eating and health habits over the past year.
The 1,005 online survey participants were asked, among many other questions, if they agreed or disagreed with the statement, “I would rather take a medication for a health condition than change my lifestyle.”
The overall number of adults who agreed with this statement shot up by 22 percent from 2012 to 2022—from 16 percent to 38 percent….