4 health behaviors can add 14 years to life.
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People who adopt four healthy behaviors — not smoking, taking exercise, moderate alcohol intake, and eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day — live on average an additional 14 years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviors, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.
Rather than focusing on how an individual factor is related to health, the study calculated the combined impact of these four simply-defined forms of behavior. The results suggest that several small changes in lifestyle could have a marked impact on the health of populations.
Between 1993 and 1997, 20,000 men and women from Norfolk, United Kingdom, between the ages of 45 and 79, none of whom had known cancer or heart or circulatory disease, completed a questionnaire that resulted in a score between 0 and 4.
A point was awarded for each of the following: not currently smoking, not being physically inactive (physical inactivity was defined as having a sedentary job and not doing any recreational exercise), a moderate alcohol intake of one to 14 units a week (a unit is half a pint of beer or a glass of wine), and a blood vitamin C level consistent with eating five servings of fruits or vegetables a day. Deaths among the participants were recorded until 2006.
After factoring in age, the results showed that over an average period of 11 years people with a score of 0 — those who did not undertake any of these healthy forms of behavior — were four times more likely to have died than those who had scored 4 in the questionnaire. [source]
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