A Healthy Diet and Lifestyle Help You Live Longer

Fri, 19 Aug 2011

A brand new study informs Americans as to exactly how they can benefit from a healthy diet, adequate exercise, not smoking and drinking in excess.

Americans who practise all four behaviours are 63 percent less likely to die early compared to those who did not practise any of them.

These behaviours are highly protective; the CDC researchers discovered that healthiest people are those who never smoke or drink more than two drinks daily for men and a daily drink for women. They stick to a healthy diet and exercise frequently and vigorously.

Engagement in any of the above unhealthy behaviours heightened the risk of early death; the risk increased as more than one plus of these unhealthy behaviours were adopted.

For the purposes of the study more than 20,050 Americans' data from a 2006 national health survey was analysed.

Participants answered questions based on dietary, demographic, socioeconomic and health-related factors.

Approximately 5 percent of participants practised all of the healthy behaviours, with 19.5 percent practising three healthy behaviours, 34.9 percent two and 30.8 per cent one.
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