Bashkiria is among top ten regions which residents lead healthy lifestyle

UFA, 8 November 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

Bashkiria is among top 10 regions of Russia with the highest share of people leading a healthy lifestyle in 2019, RBC reports.

Rosstat calculated the share of citizens who led a healthy lifestyle (HLS) during 2019 - their combined share throughout Russia was 12%. The percentage of people leading a healthy lifestyle in the Republic of Bashkortostan was 19.7%.

According to Rosstat, the official conditions to calculate the proportion of people leading a healthy lifestyle in the regions were the absence of a smoking habit; consumption of fruit and vegetables daily in the amount of at least 400 g; adequate physical activity; normal salt intake (not more than 5 g per day) and alcohol consumption of not more than 168 g of pure alcohol per week for men and not more than 84 g for women. Rosstat approved the methodology for determining a healthy lifestyle in March 2019.

Ingushetia was in the first three in the rating - a share of 48.8%, Crimea - 29.2%, and Adygea - 28.8%.

The smallest indicators were recorded at Chukotka Autonomous District - the share of HLS is 0.4%, Tuva - 1.1%, and Nenets Autonomous District - 2.1%.

Earlier, Bashinform reported that Bashkiria improved its performance in the rating of the population’s commitment to a healthy lifestyle, having gained 70.6 points, and has risen one line since 2017.