Today, an article was published evaluating the added years to a persons life if they live according to 5 specific healthy (low risk) lifestyle choices.
These include:
- Eating a healthy diet
- Never smoking
- Moderate physical activity (30 min/day)
- Moderate alcohol consumption
- Maintaining a healthy BMI
By age 50, women could add 14 years of life expectancy with these low risk factor lifestyle choices (new life expectancy of 93.1 years). In men, they could add 12.2 years of life expectancy (new life expectancy of 87.6 years)!