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.
You will find more infographics at Statista
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.
And then a woke libtard runs up and hits you with a hammer on the head putting you in the dirt.
No guarantees in life.
If you live in Baltimore, it's time for you to move.
Crime isn't as high if you live in a nice area where there is law and order.
Md here, little choice to move :( so armed, with camera’s and dogs.
“positive social interactions”??
Living behind enemy lines in Hawaii precludes that.
Got my wife and kitties, that will have to do to keep me from going postal.
>> The recommendation here is to stick to healthy plant-based foods
Cattle are plant-based foods.
Pretty sure that everyone still has a 100% risk of dying (eventually).
Regards,
Despite the unbridgeable ideological gulf separating us conservatives from the majority of people in Hawaii, I always found the inhabitants to be - on the whole - friendly and inoffensive.
Your mileage may vary.
Regards,
Is this from the same government that mandated masking and vaxxines that cause sudden deaths?
Why make a chart like this that indicates never smoking as a lifestyle change?
“Never smoking” is not a “change” that either a smoker or a non-smoker can make.
If the scientists who produced this study would like me to explain that I’ll draw them a picture.
There’s some ambiguity. Is it “never smoking going forward” (which could be a change for someone) or “never having smoked” (which can never be achieved for someone who’s smoked in the past)?
Same
Hitting the butcher this morning for a slab of beef tenderloin to make Beef Wellington. Here in Sicily that slab, cut from a free ranging, grass eating cow, costs just $26 for a 2.2lb piece. Tasty and tender beyond belief!
Nice, you see the big picture.
“Cattle are plant-based foods.”
Absolutely!! A Sonic #2 all the way with fries and a shake covers all the food groups. And for me if I walk the 1.2 miles from my house to the closest Sonic, I get extra points!
Reduction in the risk of death PERIOD after age 40?
No such things. It’s time for these people to take a writing class.
Now maybe they could term it in average years lived longer if you did this or that, but ultimately, there is NO reduction in the risk of death (100%).
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