Long Life Secrets to Staying Healthy Forever
Sure, good genes count but easy lifestyle modifications can even be more important if you want to live a longer, healthier life. The following strategies have been proven to ensure good health and longevity:
1. Eat the right protein
Eat more fish and less red meat as well as lots of fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains. it can lower your risk of premature death by at least 14 % and having Alzheimer’s disease by 68%.
2. Be salad savvy
This is a simple way to boost your health. Eat one 2 1/2 cup serving of salad a day. This is all it takes to help satisfy recommended nutrient intakes of disease-fighting, immunity-boosting vitamins C, E, B6 and folic acid. Don’t skip the dressing! The fat in it helps maximize your body’s ability to absorb cancer-fighting antioxidants.
3. Take four fewer bites
It is an effortless way to cut up to 200 daily calories, enough to lose 10 to 20 pounds in a year. It is significant enough lower your risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. People don’t even notice if they eat that much less and feel just as full. If you want to be more sure, fill your plate in the kitchen. This way you will eat up to 20 % fewer calories than if you help yourself from food served on the table.
4. Spurge on candy
Consider this as a permission to slip. A Harvard research reveals that people who do live almost one year longer than those who don’t, possibly because eating candy is so satisfying, it boosts your mood and reduces your stress levels. Choose chocolate because cocoa contains phenol, the same heat-healthy, disease-fighting compound found in red wine.
5. Go shopping
Or do any other fun activity that requires focus like gardening, cooking, even playing bingo. It will help your stress level go down and that is one of the surest ways to protect your cells from aging prematurely by up to 17 years. Stress-reducing hobbies also lower heart rate and blood pressure and decrease the risk of depression and anxiety.
6. Try ballroom dancing
Engaging regularly in just 30 minutes of moderate activity is enough to add 1,5 years to your life. Up the intensity with a more vigorous activity like running or dancing to fast-tempo tunes for 30 minutes five days a week and you’ll add 3.7 years to your life. The good news in this is that you’re never too old to start. If you can’t keep up, take a break. it will help if you divide the activity into segments that are manageable.
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