Want to live longer? A new research report from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says studied data from 44,354 men over 27 years (and 78,865 women over 30 years) and found that adapting these five can lengthen life at age 50 by 12 years for men.<\/p>\n
Quit Smoking<\/strong><\/p>\n You\u2019ve heard it before, but there\u2019s a reason your doctor is telling you to quit smoking. It\u2019s one of the simplest (albeit, not easiest) ways to extend your life!<\/p>\n Drink Moderately<\/strong><\/p>\n The report recommends that men have no more than two 5-ounce glasses of wine per day. Most doctors recommend red wine because it has more health benefits than white wine, beer or hard alcohol.<\/p>\n Exercise Regularly<\/strong><\/p>\n What exactly does \u201cregular exercise\u201d entail? At least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise. That doesn\u2019t have to mean high-impact exercise, like running. Just do something to get your heart up and use weights or resistance when possible.<\/p>\n Eat Healthy<\/strong><\/p>\n Good news! Even if you don\u2019t eat perfectly, the report found that just being in the top 40$ of a \u201crecognized healthful eating index\u201d can be enough. Even your favorite foods are fine when eating in small amounts and infrequently.<\/p>\n Maintain a BMI under 25<\/strong><\/p>\n Determining a healthy weight varies greatly by gender, body type and other factors. When in doubt, try to maintain a body mass index under 25.<\/p>\n As the report points out, lifestyle is behind 60% of early deaths in the United States. But even if you only adopt a few of the five healthy lifestyle habits, you\u2019ll probably live longer.<\/p>\n The report found that for men, at the age of 50, men who didn\u2019t adopt any of the five factors had a life expectancy of 25.5 more years. But the men who adopted all five factors had a life expectancy of 37.6 more years (age 87.6). The study found that the more low-risk factors men adopted, the lower the risk of early death.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to live longer? A new research report from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health says studied data from 44,354 men over 27 years (and 78,865 women over 30 years) and found that adapting these five can lengthen life at age 50 by 12 years for men. Quit Smoking You\u2019ve heard it before, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[740,741],"class_list":["post-12700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellness","tag-lifestyle","tag-live-longer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}