Researchers over in Sweden say that to add six years to your life all you have to do is to lead a healthy lifestyle. We wonder how long they spent researching that…
Apparently, it hasn’t been clear up until now whether living a healthy life style right up into old age would actually extend your life by a few years. Now we know it does.
It may be hard to believe, but there was no hard evidence to suggest that factors such as being overweight, smoking and excessive drinking made a difference to your body when you’re over the age of 75. Basically, they thought that once you made it that far the rest was just a bit of a bonus.
The study looked at over 2,000 volunteers for 18-years and it has finally given us the first indication that it is beneficial to stay in shape. Long term healthy living, according to the study, will see a man extend his life by six years, while a woman would be expected to live another five.
The researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said: “The associations between leisure activity, not smoking, and increased survival still existed in those aged 75 years or more, with women’s lives prolonged by five years and men’s by six years.”
So if you want to see The Rolling Stones play their ‘last’ gig ever in 80 years time, then you might want to crack out the yoga mat.
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