{
  "id": 20182299,
  "title": "Gen X is in worse health than boomers – and I have a few theories as to why | Emma Beddington",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/gen-x-is-in-worse-health-than-boomers-and-i-have-a-few-theories-as-to",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-15T14:00:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/15/gen-x-is-in-worse-health-than-boomers-and-i-have-a-few-theories-as-to-why"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "People in my age group are experiencing poorer physical and mental health than their elders at the same stage. Is this down to UPFs and booze, or something more complicated? I almost choked on my bird-food breakfast recently, reading that gen Xers are in worse health than boomers. Research by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies , on approximately 8,000 participants aged about 50 from the 1970…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}