I am a huge fan of Dr. Weil, one of the big names in integrative medicine out there right now. I ran across this great article about 4 easy ways to live healthy that came out of a recent British study. To me what is both sad and amazing is that, if these suggestions were a prescription pill, this news would be everywhere. Sadly the science of integrative medicine and nutrition is still not wildly accepted by the medical community. What is also wonderful is how easy these behaviors are, totally something we could all do. So eat up, drink up and get moving!
People who practice four specific behaviors live, on average, 14 more years compared to people who don’t practice those healthy behaviors, according to a new British study.
The four behaviors - not smoking, performing regular exercise, drinking moderate amounts of alcohol and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day - had each been independently shown to increase lifespan, but this was the first study to examine their combined value.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council studied 20,000 men and women from the city of Norfolk who were between the ages of 45 and 79 in the years between 1993 and 1997. The participants filled out questionnaires tracking their health habits. Then, their death rates were recorded until 2006. The study was reported in the January 8, 2008 edition of the journal PLOS Medicine. It is part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), conducted in 10 European countries. EPIC is the largest-ever study of diet and health.
The four behaviors - not smoking, performing regular exercise, drinking moderate amounts of alcohol and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day - had each been independently shown to increase lifespan, but this was the first study to examine their combined value.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council studied 20,000 men and women from the city of Norfolk who were between the ages of 45 and 79 in the years between 1993 and 1997. The participants filled out questionnaires tracking their health habits. Then, their death rates were recorded until 2006. The study was reported in the January 8, 2008 edition of the journal PLOS Medicine. It is part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), conducted in 10 European countries. EPIC is the largest-ever study of diet and health.
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