How can we live 14 extra years?
To increase the longevity we don’t need any incantation. Not smoking, taking exercise, drinking in moderation and eating five rations of fruit and vegetables a day can lengthen our life approximately 14 years. That is concluded from two researches published recently.
One of these researches, published in “PLoS Medicine” magazine, analyzed the healthy habits of about 20,200 men and women during more than one decade. These people are residents of Norfolk (United Kingdom). None of the participants had suffered a cardiovascular dysfunction or cancer before being part of the sample and all people were between 45 and 79 years old.
Participants were awarded a point for each of their four healthy behaviors. In the case of fruits and vegetables consumption, people with appropriate levels of vitamin C in blood were rewarded. On the other hand, drinking less than 14 units of alcohol (seven pints of beer) a week was considered as moderate alcohol consumption .
As for alcohol, the researchers, at Cambridge University, said that a low alcohol intake improved people’s chance of survival by 26% and, actually, not drinking at all and drinking a lot are considered as harmful situations.
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