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Add 22 Years To Your Life
Provided by Men's Health
Good genes go a long way when it comes to longevity, but your DNA isn't the only thing that will determine whether you make it into your 60s or become a centenarian. The small changes you make to your lifestyle now could give you an extra 22 years. Check out these five easy steps to living a longer, healthier life.
Good genes go a long way when it comes to longevity, but your DNA isn't the only thing that will determine whether you make it into your 60s or become a centenarian. The small changes you make to your lifestyle now could give you an extra 22 years. Check out these five easy steps to living a longer, healthier life.
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Add 22 Years To Your Life
Provided by Men's Health
Good genes go a long way when it comes to longevity, but your DNA isn't the only thing that will determine whether you make it into your 60s or become a centenarian. The small changes you make to your lifestyle now could give you an extra 22 years. Check out these five easy steps to living a longer, healthier life.
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Next Time You're Asked "Soup or Salad?" Order the Salad
+2 years
Italian researchers found that eating as little as one cup of raw vegetables daily can add 2 years to your life. Why raw? Cooking can deplete up to 30 percent of the antioxidants in vegetables.To eat your quota, fill a ziplock sandwich bag with chopped red and green peppers, broccoli, and carrots. Toss the bag into your briefcase, along with a packet of dressing -- the fat will boost your body's absorption of certain nutrients.
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Learn the Law of Lard: The Fat You Carry Today Could Kill You Tomorrow
+3 years
University of Alabama researchers discovered that maintaining a body-mass index of 25 to 35 can shorten your life by up to three years. (Excess body fat raises your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and colon cancer.) If you're allergic to exercise, sweat with your significant other. A Duke University study shows that sedentary men are 50 percent more likely to work out three times a week if their partners participate.
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Crack Open a Fresh Can of Nuts and Extend Your Expiration Date
+3 years
When Loma Linda University researchers tracked the lifestyle habits of 34,000 Seventh-Day Adventists -- a population famous for its longevity -- they discovered that those who munched nuts 5 days a week, earned an extra 2.9 years on the planet. Pick up the Planters NUT-rition Heart Healthy Mix: It contains all five key nuts, including walnuts, which are usually left out of nut mixes. Aim to eat two ounces a day.
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Never Forget that Your Buddies Have Your Back -- Even When It's Hunched Over from Osteoporosis
+7 years
In a study of seventy-somethings, Australian researchers found that those with the largest network of friends had the longest lease on life. For the average guy, this could add up to seven additional years of existence. Yes, some buddies may encourage risky behavior from time to time, but friendship ultimately provides more protection than peril. So try to learn a few new faces at work, trade lifting tips at the gym, or simply say "hey" to that neighbor you've never met. You can all thank each other later.
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Repeat After Us: "There is Life After Retirement"
+7 1/2 years
Or at least that's what you'd better believe if you want to live that long. In a Yale University study of older adults, people with a positive outlook on the aging process lived more than seven years longer than those who felt doomed to deteriorating mental and physical health. Already envisioning decades of decrepitude? Volunteer for a cause you're passionate about: Selfless actions can put a positive spin on life and distract from unhealthy obsessing, reports a study in Psychosomatic Medicine.
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Jacob Seidman 11:00:06 PM Oct 09 2009
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Bocavert 05:00:02 PM Oct 09 2009
Act like a kid, expect and accept change, keep you thoughts happy, laugh. Watch what you take into your body. Four score and 7 is usually enough. Children are our immortality.
adeathsmckitten 04:36:17 PM Oct 09 2009
PanamaRider323 how wrong could you be. Sure smoking is very unhealthy and can kill you, however there is a 98 year old man who smokes 5 packs of cigarettes a day! How isn't he dead yet? Well I'll tell you...Stress is one of the top ways of death, and believe it or not stress slowly kills you and takes time off of your lifespan. This jolly old man is always happy, and has very rarely been stressful throughout his whole life, and still has no signs of dying (except of old age). This man smokes constantly, but is always happy and laughing... (Did you know laughing actually increases your lifespan?) Sure eating health and having a great diet with exercise is important, but it's stress in which you need to be careful about. Laugh more with your friends and family and when something goes wrong don't stress out over it, just deal with it calmly.
Roadrock1 03:12:42 PM Oct 09 2009
Great !!!!!! Another 20 years to spend in the nursing home !!!
PanamaRider323 02:30:57 PM Oct 09 2009
The only secret to a long life as your body can stand up too , is too eat healthy and exercise daily, plenty of fresh tropical fruits and fresh fish and healthy poultry . If you smoke , stop , that will kil you for sure if you do it long enough.
FareedCader 05:12:40 AM Oct 09 2009
Well, guys nobody or nothing can guarantee if you would see the sun light tomorrow when you go to bed at night, you don't even know you would wake up on the following morning. What happens is when you eat good food, you can be healthy. This life is given by God and he knows when you will die and no guarantee or contracts can give you a long life. You life is in the hands of God. I know if you are an Atheist or an Evolutionist or an Agnostic, you are going to deny what I am saying. If you use your reasoning, you can understand what I have said here.
Stirwins333 12:17:50 AM Oct 09 2009
LOL, I just got done reading the thing which was at least entertaining to read and had a little bit of good info, such as eating nuts, and I scroll down to see 8 comments of conspiricy theorists, self MDs, and just plain a s sholes, get a life people.
