8 habits may last your life

Turning 40 is not the end but a new beginning.

 

A non-published study applied on American veterans, quoted by CNN.com on July 24^th, 2023 assures adopting eight healthy lifestyles can increase your life rate (the longest lapse you can live)  up to 24 years. That means, for example, if your life rate is 75 years, you could last until 99.

 

The key is starting at 40 years old supposing you never had those habits before in your lifetime. If you start at 50 years old, the life rate increases 21 years, and if you start at 60, you can add 18 years at the most.

 

“There is a 20-year lapse which you can make those changes, whether you make them gradually or all at once,” said study’s senior author Xuan-Mai Nguyen, a health sciences specialist with the Million Veteran Programme, who works in Boston, Mass. healthcare system.

 

They’re indeed possible

The eight habits are things we’ve ever heard all the time: doing exercise, healthy diet, not smoking, reducing stress, sleeping well, growing positive social relationships, not drinking much, not becoming addict to opioids.

 

• If you’re a 40-year-old man adopting just one of those lifestyles, you add 4.5 years to your life rate. If you adopt two, you add 7, and if you adopt  three, it’s about 8.5 additional years to your life rate.
• If you’re a woman, adopting just one habit adds 3.5 years, as well as adopting two adds 8, and three adds more than 12.5 years.
• “Making all eight adds a synergetic effect,”  Nguyen said.

 

The author clarifies it’s better starting when you’re younger, but if you start since 40s, even the smallest change is still benefitial. “This is not out of reach, it’s actually atenniable by general population.”

 

Key facts

The research included about 720,000 U.S. militia veterans aged between 40 and 99 years old forming Million Veteran Programme, that looks for studying longitudinally their health and well being.

 

It considered ages, different ethnicities and marital status. But it clarifies it only focused on militia veterans, so it couldn’t transfer to other social groups, at the moment. But, indeed, it took many of tested don’t follow military training, are not in active duty, already.

 

It also analyzed people with chronic diseases having those lifestyles and the outcomes seem to be positive. The study was presented on July 24^th, 2023, in Nutrition 2023, the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition.

 

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