The secrets to long life
Rushda:
January 8th, 2008
Everyone knows that leading a healthy lifestyle by controlling your diet and exercise is the most important thing for ensuring a long life, but now leading scientists have finally confirmed how true this is, even putting a figure to the guidance by saying that anyone who follows the guidelines will on average increase their lifespan by 14 years.
The recommendations are as follows:
1. Take regular exercise
2. Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables daily
3. Drink alcohol only in moderation
4. Don’t smoke
According to experts from University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council, anyone who follows the four simple things above will automatically boost their lifespan for an average of fourteen years. Not only this but they will encounter fewer health problems throughout their life too. The research involved in producing these results involved analysing the habits of over 20,000 people over a decade where it was found that people who failed on all four of the criteria had more health problems and were in times four times more likely to die during that period than those who succeeded. Furthermore, what is especially encouraging is that it doesn’t even matter if you are poor or overweight, fulfilling the above will still help you just as much.
Professor Kay-Tee Khaw, who led the research says:
“We’ve know that individually, measures such as not smoking and exercising can have an impact upon longevity, but this is the first time we have looked at them altogether. And we also found that social class and BMI – body mass index – really did not have a role to play. It means a large proportion of the population really could feel health benefits through moderate changes.”
This is great news and should encourage everyone to take the simple steps highlighted in order to have longer, healthier, and no doubt happier lives.
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January 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Dr. Oz who is Oprah’s doctor says that the secret to long and healthy life is to take resveratrol supplements!
According to Wikipedia, Consumer Lab, an independent dietary
supplement and over the counter products evaluation organization,
published a report on 13 November 2007 on the popular resveratrol
supplements. The organization reported that there exists a wide range
in quality, dose, and price among the 13 resveratrol products
evaluated. The actual amount of resveratrol contained in the
different brands range from 2.2mg for Revatrol, which claimed to have
400mg of “Red Wine Grape Complex”, to 500mg for Biotivia.com Transmax,
which is consistent with the amount claimed on the product’s label.
Prices per 100mg of resveratrol ranged from less than $.30 for
products made by Biotivia.com, jarrow, and country life, to a high of
$45.27 for the Revatrol brand. None of the products tested were found
to have significant levels of heavy metals or other contaminants.
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