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Category Archives: Longevity

Cut Disease With These 4 Healthy Habits

When it comes right down to it, there’s no magic formula or miracle cure to staying healthy and cut disease. The things you need to do are things we all can do…
1. Don’t smoke – if you do, try to quit
2. Get active – at least 3.5 hours a week
3. Stay away from junk food [...]

The Link Between Cholesterol and Alzheimers Disease

Doctors know that high cholesterol brings increased risk of heart disease, and what’s worrisome is the finding about the dangers of even borderline cholesterol that comes from a new study that’s one of the largest and longest dementia trials ever conducted. Could there be a link between cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease?
Adults in their mid 40s [...]

One of the Secrets of Longevity Could be a Life Purpose

It doesn’t matter what that purpose is, lofty or more mundane, just having a life purpose that you’re working to achieve impacts how long older adults live according to new research, giving answers to one of the secrets of longevity.The work appears in Psychosomatic Medicine, and was completed by team out of Rush University Medical [...]

A Half Glass Of Wine Boosts Life Expectancy In Men

A new study suggests that about a half a glass of wine each day might just be good for you, increasing life span by as much as 5 years.
The findings of the Dutch research appear online in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and are the first to suggest [...]

Ten Food Choices Regularly Made By 100+ Year Olds

Want to live to a ripe old age?
Florence Baldwin, Britain’s oldest woman who has just turned 113, credits her longevity to a daily fried egg sandwich.
And while medicine can tell you exactly what shortens your lifespan (smoking and being overweight come to mind) researchers have for along time struggled to identify things that contribute to [...]

Life Expectancy Age Increased Due to Cleaner Air

A study appearing in the January 22nd issue of the New England Journal of Medicine brings encouraging news about our ongoing efforts in the United States to clean up the air and how these actions have helped improve the average life expectancy age in 51 U.S. cities.
It seems that improving the quality [...]

A secrets of longevity religious services make you like longer

New research shows that attending religious services… beyond bringing comfort and lending strength to many, may be a secret to longevity and actually [...]

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