10 easy ways to increase your life expectancy

Want to live a long and happy life? Here's how
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1. Go for a walk - 10 easy ways to increase your life expectancy

1. Go for a walk

Even if you’re 50 and have never taken part in a physical activity, a brisk half-hour walk three times a week can “basically reverse your physiological age by about ten years,” says Gareth Jones, director of the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging in London, Ont.

His source? A three-year study of 220 retirement-age men in which half didn’t exercise and the other half walked briskly for 30 minutes three times a week. After a year, the exercise group showed a 12 percent increase in aerobic power and a ten percent increase in strength and hip flexibility—equivalent to what they would have lost over a decade had they not exercised at all.

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To all those individuals who have only negative comments and thoughts to offer, please keep them to yourselves. You are helping no one including yourselves. To Best of Health, much thanks for your daily tips, ideas and good newsletter.

Please stop increasing the number of years that older citizens must endure the ravages of physical disability, dementia, macular degeneration, etc., etc.

It all sounds wonderful until one reaches middle age and just like an old car engine the parts start to break down and become non functional. Let people die with some dignity left!

 
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