Through a British study, people with four healthy lifestyle behaviors: not smoking, physical activity, moderate alcohol consumption, and eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day were shown to live an average of 14 years longer than people with none of these healthy behaviors.
There is no surprise to me here that trying to quit smoking, eating healthier and being more active can help to increase not only the quality of your life but the longevity as well. After all, the most common causes of death are heart disease, cancer and stroke, taking the lives of nearly 1.5 million people in the United States each year. This is more than the number of soldiers that died in the Civil War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.
I know for sure that one small change that people who work with me could make would be to simply include at least one serving of vegetables at lunch and one at dinner. I don't think that is so difficult!
Renee Brunetti LD/N, NSCA-CPT, ACSM
“If you had one car to get around in your lifetime, how would you treat it?”
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