| Healthy lifestyle adds 14 years to lifespan |
| Written by JuniorDr Team | |
| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
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People who adopt four healthy behaviours - smoking cessation, exercise, moderate alcohol intake, and a diet high in fruits and vegetables - live on average an additional fourteen years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviours.
The increased longevity was unrelated to body mass index or social class. http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=getdocument&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050015
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The study, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, is based on a lifestyle survey and death rates of 20,000 men and women.
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