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A healthy lifestyle can help you live longer even if you have chronic conditions, study suggests



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Exercise, a healthy diet and not smoking or drinking can help you live years longer even if you’re struggling with other chronic medical conditions, according to a new study.

While a healthy lifestyle has long been linked to a longer life span, there has been very little research to date on how lifestyle factors affect people with “multimorbidity” – living with two or more long-term mental or physical health conditions such as hypertension (high blood pressure), asthma, cancer, depression, migraine, diabetes and angina.

To find out, a team of UK researchers tracked 93,736 middle-aged adults who had two

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Healthy lifestyle associated with reduced mortality risk in childhood cancer survivors

Excess mortality and causes of death in survivors

In addition to the importance of potentially modifiable risk factors, this report is the first to detail that the specific primary causes of death in long-term survivors are similar to the leading causes of death in the US population, occurring earlier in survivors.

“We identified that long-term survivors of childhood cancer are experiencing a large number of deaths in excess of what would be expected for the general, aging population,” said the first and corresponding author Stephanie Dixon, MD, MPH, St. Jude Department of Oncology. “We were the first to find that

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8 healthy habits linked to living decades longer

Moderate exercise and positive social relationships are two of the habits associated with longer lives

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People who adopt eight healthy habits by the age of 40 may live about two decades longer than those who don’t. The effect is lower but still significant for people who have these eight habits by the time they are 60 years old.

Xuan-Mai Nguyen at the VA Boston Healthcare System and her colleagues collected data on physical activity, diet, sleep, mental health, relationships and alcohol use from a group of more than 700,000 US veterans between 40 and 99 years old. Participants

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Combination of healthy lifestyle traits may substantially reduce Alzheimer’s disease

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Combining more healthy lifestyle behaviors was associated with substantially lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease in a study that included data from nearly 3,000 research participants. Those who adhered to four or all of the five specified healthy behaviors were found to have a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer’s. The behaviors were physical activity, not smoking, light-to-moderate alcohol consumption, a high-quality diet, and cognitive activities. Funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, this research was published in the June 17, 2020, online issue of Neurologythe medical

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A healthy lifestyle may help former smokers lower their risk of death from all causes

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Former smokers who stick to a healthy lifestyle have a lower risk of dying from all causes than those who don’t engage in healthy habits, according to a new study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The reduced risk of dying was observed for specific causes, including cancer and heart and lung diseases. Lifestyle interventions have not been robustly studied in former smokers, and these new findings could have important implications for the 52 million former smokers in the United States.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle—defined

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Five healthy habits may increase life expectancy | News

For immediate release: April 30, 2018

Boston, MA – Maintaining five healthy habits—eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too much alcohol, and not smoking—during adulthood may add more than a decade to life expectancy, according to a new study led by Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

Researchers also found that US women and men who maintained the healthiest lifestyles were 82% less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 65% less likely to die from cancer when compared with those with the least healthy lifestyles over the course of roughly 30-years.

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Governor Hochul Announces $3.38 Million for Choose Healthy Life to Address Health Inequities in the Black Community through the Black Church

CHL initially established a network of 50 Black churches in five major cities – including New York – and grew to 120 churches across 13 states. The success of the program is centered on the establishment of a community health workforce in the Black church. In its first year, CHL hosted over 2,200 events, administered over 90,000 COVID-19 tests and vaccinations through its churches.

Choose Healthy Life was founded by Debra Fraser-Howze and is based off the highly successful model she created while at the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, an organization she founded to address the

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These healthy habits might also lead to a happier life

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Is the secret to the happiness of a warm puppy? A good marriage? A rewarding career? Or something else entirely?

Happiness means different things to different people, but a growing body of research suggests keeping a smile on your face may help add years to your life by lowering the risk for cardiovascular disease and death from all causes.

Not feeling it? Health experts say there are daily habits that might just make a difference. Here are five:

Keep it moving

Granted, the words “physical exercise” don’t always make people smile. They might even elicit

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