Have you thought about how small changes to your lifestyle could have big changes to your life?
It doesn't take a doctor to tell you that being overweight, smoking, drinking too much and lack of exercise will contribute to poor health. But how do all these different factors increase the chances of dying?
A team of researchers came together from the National Institutes of Health and Human Services, and the National Cancer Institute to investigate this very question. They've been reviewing the factors that may have an impact on either decreasing or increasing the life expectancy of older women.
The research team stated: "Our goal was to assess the relative strength and joint contributions of factors on the risk of death in postmenopausal women". The main areas of interest to the researchers were those things affecting life expectancy that could be easily changed for example through exercise or diet.
What's required for a long life?
The study was large, consisting of almost 18,000 women, who had an average of 68.
Of all the high risk factors, those that could be changed easily were: smoking, being overweight with fat stored in the abdominal area, being unfit, and having high blood pressure.
What can you do reduce these risk factors?
This study demonstrated fortunately, that just making some simple changes to your lifestyle can in fact pay big dividends to your overall health and wellbeing and also your life expectancy.
Including:
It's time to start exerting. All types of moderate exercise are going to benefit you. Even walking, which is perhaps the easiest and most gentle form of exercise, has been shown when done 30 mins per day to, lower your blood pressure, reduce anxiety and depression, retard the progression of diabetes and dementia, and also reduces arthritic pain. Walking also is a great way of losing weight, and this leads us the next points.
Keeping a healthy weight. It was noted that it's important to lose that 'tummy fat', studies indicate that having fat round the waist increase the chances of heart disease.
Keeping your blood pressure normal, a natural way to maintaing a healthy blood pressure is by exercising, paying attention to your diet, for example reducing the amount of fats, salt and sugar in your food, and by not smoking.
Give up smoking. If you're a smoker, quitting is a major milestone in reducing the risks of cancers and heart disease.
From these four, smoking was highlighted as particularly detrimental to your health, causing 25% of the cancer deaths in women. The researchers went on to say: "The strong association of smoking with mortality is a critical reminder that smoking is the most important modifiable risk factor that physicians and society should address, even in older women." (Arch Intern Med 2006;2469-77)
It doesn't take a doctor to tell you that being overweight, smoking, drinking too much and lack of exercise will contribute to poor health. But how do all these different factors increase the chances of dying?
A team of researchers came together from the National Institutes of Health and Human Services, and the National Cancer Institute to investigate this very question. They've been reviewing the factors that may have an impact on either decreasing or increasing the life expectancy of older women.
The research team stated: "Our goal was to assess the relative strength and joint contributions of factors on the risk of death in postmenopausal women". The main areas of interest to the researchers were those things affecting life expectancy that could be easily changed for example through exercise or diet.
What's required for a long life?
The study was large, consisting of almost 18,000 women, who had an average of 68.
Of all the high risk factors, those that could be changed easily were: smoking, being overweight with fat stored in the abdominal area, being unfit, and having high blood pressure.
What can you do reduce these risk factors?
This study demonstrated fortunately, that just making some simple changes to your lifestyle can in fact pay big dividends to your overall health and wellbeing and also your life expectancy.
Including:
It's time to start exerting. All types of moderate exercise are going to benefit you. Even walking, which is perhaps the easiest and most gentle form of exercise, has been shown when done 30 mins per day to, lower your blood pressure, reduce anxiety and depression, retard the progression of diabetes and dementia, and also reduces arthritic pain. Walking also is a great way of losing weight, and this leads us the next points.
Keeping a healthy weight. It was noted that it's important to lose that 'tummy fat', studies indicate that having fat round the waist increase the chances of heart disease.
Keeping your blood pressure normal, a natural way to maintaing a healthy blood pressure is by exercising, paying attention to your diet, for example reducing the amount of fats, salt and sugar in your food, and by not smoking.
Give up smoking. If you're a smoker, quitting is a major milestone in reducing the risks of cancers and heart disease.
From these four, smoking was highlighted as particularly detrimental to your health, causing 25% of the cancer deaths in women. The researchers went on to say: "The strong association of smoking with mortality is a critical reminder that smoking is the most important modifiable risk factor that physicians and society should address, even in older women." (Arch Intern Med 2006;2469-77)
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