Top 5 Habits to Increase Longevity

Dr. Mao / Yahoo Health ^ | 9/1/09 | Dr. Maoshing Ni

[NormsRevenge]

Is it really possible for anyone to live happily to 100? The good news is that your body was designed to be 100 - you just have to get out of the way.

Getting out of the way means taking an honest look at the habits and lifestyle you are living with today. Most of us have developed habits that limit our true health potential.

But don't let these bad habits of the past discourage you - it is never too late to make new choices. What you did in the past can be changed, and your body will respond in kind. What matters is what you do from this moment forward.

Top 5 Daily Habits for Your Longevity It takes 14 to 21 days of repetitive behavior to form a new pattern in your brain. Once the pattern is formed, it becomes an automatic behavioral response.

As you develop new healthy habits, they will begin to replace bad habits. These healthy lifelong habits are adapted straight from the time-tested traditions practiced by centenarians all around the world, and I can say with certainty that they will transform and rejuvenate you!

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Eat five small meals a day.

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Climb the stairs instead of using elevators.

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Laugh it up!

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Drink 8 glasses of water every day.

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Unwind with meditation.

[trisham]

I gave up coffee, tea and anything else with caffeine, and drink water all day. No set amount, just whenever I feel like it. I fall asleep much more quickly at night.

[Atlas Sneezed]

That’s when your body tells you that it’s already dehydrated, actually.

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“The notion that there is widespread dehydration has no basis in medical fact,” says Dr. Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Doctors from a wide range of specialties agree: By all evidence, we are a well-hydrated nation. Furthermore, they say, the current infatuation with water as an all-purpose health potion — tonic for the skin, key to weight loss — is a blend of fashion and fiction and very little science.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Same here...sorry, did you mean water?

[squidly]

I prefer Scotch whisky, cigars, hot girls, fast cars, and America.

I'll take that and living to 65 over veganism and teetotalling and living to be 90.

Although I recollect a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno who was on just because of his longetivity. He was 100 and something, maybe 105, I don't remember. Anyhow, Jay asked him if he ever smoked and he said he quit when he was 85. Jay asked him about drinking and he said, "Oh yeah, I like Jack Daniels!" So I guess you never can tell about these things.

[discostu]

I still knock down some soda, but generally not more than 40 ounces in a day and not after 2 PM. The rest is almost all water. The body is a much happier thing on water than most other stuff we drink.

[humblegunner]

Top 5 Habits to Increase Longevity

Avoiding mobs bearing torches and pitchforks.

First and foremost.

[trisham]

I agree!

[Old Professer]

Two words work besr — Eat less!

[majormaturity]

GOOOOOD advice!

[King Moonracer]

And is a longer life spent mostly urinating really worth the effort?

Yes, if there is snow on the ground.

[saganite]

Hmm, I don’t see bourbon and cigars anywhere in that list. Guess I’m not gonna make it.

[RipSawyer]

I have learned that when one reaches a certain age thirst is likely to be misinterpreted as hunger. Sometimes when I feel hungry I start sipping from a large tumbler of ice water and my “hunger” goes away instantly. When I am really hungry it takes twenty minutes or more after starting to eat before I stop feeling hungry.

[RipSawyer]

Snopes makes the claim that many people can meet their water needs from the food they eat without drinking any other fluids. I won’t say it isn’t so but I would think a person would have to be “eating” a lot of soups and such that have a very high water content. I know I would have a hard time going 24 hours without drinking anything, it would be very tough on me.

[glock rocks]

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." --Frank Zappa

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin

"You can never buy beer. You just rent it. --Archie Bunker

"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." --Dave Barry

"I recommend..bread, meat, vegetables, and beer." --Sophocles

"I work until beer o'clock." --Stephen King

DOUGH... the stuff...that buys me beer...
RAY..... the guy that sells me beer...
ME...... the guy... who drinks the beer,
FAR..... the distance to my beer
SO...... I think I'll have a beer...
LA...... La la la la la la beer
TEA..... no thanks, I'm drinking beer...
That will bring us back to...(Looks into an empty glass)
D'OH!

[madamemayhem]

that really should read... “drink 8 glasses of wine (or whiskey or beer) every day that obama is squatting in the White House.”

[glock rocks]

um.

[SamAdams76]

I call BS on the water thing too. Going out of your way to drink 8 glasses of water is just unnatural. If you have a proper diet, you get most of the water you need from food.

Back when I was overweight and eating mostly processed, salty foods, I needed a lot of water. Since switching to mostly whole foods (lots of fruits and vegetables), the only drink I have is a cup of coffee in the morning and maybe a glass or two of wine or beer at night.

[BenLurkin]

These two should be on the list......

[bert]

Michelle is the prototype.

The healthcare bureaucrats will be overpaid attitudinal affirmative action advanced black women.

Think Royal Pains and the firer of the good doctor

The message is that the blacks have turned on the Jews

[Wordkraft]

I would add another habit for a long life:

Avoid death.

Seemed obvious to me.