More Americans than ever, especially women, are celebrating the big
1-0-0. The number of centenarians has spiked by nearly 44 percent in recent
years.
And the folks who do make it to 100 are surviving many years past the
century mark, according to a new report from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Increase your chance of joining the club
with these tenets of longer life.
1. Follow the MIND diet
This eating plan, which emphasizes consuming healthy grains,
vegetables and fish and limiting red meat and sweets, has been shown to lower
the risk of Alzheimer’s—a leading cause of death in people over 100, per the
CDC findings.
2. Work out harder
A recent study found that middle-aged or older people who do
high-intensity exercise that makes them sweat may reduce their risk of dying
early by up to 13 percent, compared with those who stick to moderate activity.
3. Find a sense of purpose
Researchers followed 136,000 people in the U.S. and Japan for
seven years and learned that those who reported feeling a strong sense of
meaning in life had a roughly 20 percent lower risk of death over the course of
the study than those who didn’t.
Source:
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