Alice Park writes in Time Magazine about a study done in 2018 where, "An international group of researchers led by scientists at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that adopting five healthy habits could extend life expectancy by 14 years for women and by 12 years for men.
The five healthy habits were:
"eating a diet high in plants and low in fats
exercising at a moderate to vigorous level for several hours a week
maintaining a healthy body weight
not smoking
consuming no more than one alcoholic drink a day for women and two for men”
Recently, the researchers were curious to know how many of those extended years were healthy ones, which they defined as living free of three diseases: heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer.
Their follow-up study, published on January 8th, found that men who follow these healthy habits can add 8 additional years of life expectancy after age 50 and women can expect to add 10 years.
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