Healthy Lifestyle

Keys to Longer Life

By August 14, 2020 No Comments

Everyone wants to have a longer life. Although we can’t guarantee this, we can help you maintain healthy habits that will hopefully help lead you to a healthier and longer life.

1) Maintain a healthy diet

Maintaining a healthy diet can help decrease the risk of getting diseases and help extend your lifespan. A healthy diet should follow the food pyramid for size of the portion for each category. It should be a majority of fruits and vegetable (E.g. dates, apple, lettuces)

2) Stay physically active

Being physically active has not only been proven to keep you healthy but also extend your lifespan. According to a journal written by The Lancet, As few as 15 minutes of exercise per day may help you achieve benefits, which could include an additional 3 years of life.

3) Maintain a healthy body weight

Maintaining a healthy body weight can be a difference to extend one lifespan, to help keep track of where to maintain your body weight, you can use the Body Mass Index (BMI), the healthy range on the BMI is between 18.5 to 24.9

4) Smoking

The trick for this, is not to limit smoking but to not do it at all, smoking has been linked to diseases and early death. It has also been proven that those who picked up smoking are estimated to lose 10 years of their life compared to those who has never smoke

5) Avoid chronic stress and anxiety

Anxiety and chronic stress can majorly reduce your lifespan, if you’re feeling stress or anxious, laughter and optimism can help reduce or stop them.

Do share these tips and tricks with your loved ones! 😉

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