Posted on 02/21/2024 9:40:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Lifestyle and habits can have a big effect on our health - and our life expectancy. A recently released study that followed U.S. veterans of the age group 40 to 99 between the years 2011 and 2019 is attempting to show just how much.
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, according to mortality trends collected among 719,147 veterans and lifestyle factors assessed among 276,132, being physically active lowered the risk of death among the sample population the most - by 46 percent - opposite someone with no healthy habits and factors.
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The study applied the Department of Health's recommendation of 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week as a threshold participants had to meet to be classified as physically active.
Never smoking shaved off 30 percent off the risk of dying, while eating a diet that includes many plant-based foods lowered the risk of death by 21 percent. The recommendation here is to stick to healthy plant-based foods instead of just any.
Not engaging in frequent binge drinking and getting restorative sleep of seven to nine hours (by not undercutting the hours of one's usual sleep) could be expected to lead to a mortality risk decrease of 18 and 19 percent, respectively, according to the study. Having positive social interactions lowered the risk of dying by just 5 percent.
The study also shows how combining different lifestyle factors can add up.
Adopting just one led to a lower mortality risk in the study group of 26 percent on average. Adopting six positive habits even led to a decrease of 73 percent. The study also included the factors depression/anxiety and opioid addiction. Being free of either was associated with a decrease in mortality of 29 percent and 38 percent, with opioid disorder therefore scoring lower as a harmful behavior than physical inactivity.
Adopting or being free of all eight factors was associated with a lower risk of dying of 87 percent.
Word.
“The recommendation here is to stick to healthy plant-based foods”
“Cattle are plant-based foods.”
If you want to get picky... Split hoof, chews the cud. That’s what the book sez. Fish with fins AND with scales.
Basically, stay away from scavenger meat.
Birds? It’s a bit more involved. Quail, dove, ground feeders of seeds, which hatch and start foraging. Chickens? I guess the eggs are okay.
Frijoles! Black beans with oatmeal? One of my favorites.
If you smoke for the majority of your life, don’t quit. The cancer will indeed bite you if you quit. Changes something at least for my family. Everyone who quit after decades of smoking died early, the ones who didn’t lived to late 80’s and a few into 90’s.
“Living behind enemy lines in Hawaii precludes that.”
When we lived there, we knew the stats re the liberalism of Hawaii, but didn’t feel it too much in our everyday lives. We had a good church, and in our jobs we were pretty much surrounded by hard-working, no-nonsense people.
The only freaks I came in contact with were the Hollywood celebrities who stayed at the resort where I worked. All my co-workers in “the back of the house” spent a ton of time ridiculing those liberal snowflakes.
I don’t want to be here when the woke robots take over.
Not one mention of the clot shot.
Diversity hires.
My doctor basically reviewed this list with me last week. I asked her if going up and down stairs about 30 times a day counted. She said it did.
Since childhood leg/hip issues and surgeries, exercise never has been something I do, or can do, “vigorously”. I’ll just have to take my chances. Everybody dies.
I will also add " Aviodng them" at all costs will increase your life span also.
What is the value of quitting smoking? I used to smoke, 30 years ago, but quit in 1994.
Still, I smoked everyday since 1973...
Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!
I would add an item to the list; don’t have a father who dies of a heart attack at 58 because this can cause you to have a near fatal heart attack at 59 despite living totally different lifestyles.
I’ve been watching this Doctor’s videos, and it’s totally changed how I’ve been looking at things.
The key is reducing visceral fat. You can be skinny on the outside and still have visceral fat, especially if you do a lot of jogging and long-distance running. His advice is to sprint for short periods of time, rather than spending hours jogging/running.
Dr. Sean O’Mara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9_d8GEDgLI
What’s the big motivating factor in “living longer” ??
Define binge drinking. 😆
-73% Adopting sex changes.
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