Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Secret to Longevity and Anti Aging Revealed?

When it comes to living longer, looking younger and losing weight, everyone is searching for the holy grail, but the solution is relatively simple. If you want to live longer, look younger and lose weight, you need to live a healthier lifestyle.

Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, according to new research.

The findings are from a study that tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years, and they highlight yet another reason to adopt a healthier lifestyle.

The risky behaviors were: smoking tobacco; downing more than three alcoholic drinks per day for men and more than two daily for women; getting less than two hours of physical activity per week; and eating fruits and vegetables fewer than three times daily.

These habits combined substantially increased the risk of death and made people who engaged in them seem 12 years older than people in the healthiest group, said lead researcher Elisabeth Kvaavik of the University of Oslo.

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