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 Posted - 10/23/2013 : 11:31:44
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FRIENDS ARE MORE IMPORTANT TO LONGEVITY THAN EXERCISE
The Terman study showed that you should be a little more concerned about your friends than your body:
…"connecting with and helping others is more important than obsessing over a rigorous exercise program"
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Posted - 10/23/2013 : 19:43:51
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WHAT PROMOTES A LONG LIFE? (By The Business Insider)
Relationships Are The Most Important Thing
- There is a single question that best predicts whether you’ll be alive at age 80:
“Is there someone in your life whom you would feel comfortable phoning at four in the morning to tell your troubles to?”
If your answer is yes, you will likely live longer than someone whose answer is no.
- Want to make your life better? This study shows it’s your relationships that can determine whether or not you succeed.
The groups you associate with often determine the type of person you become. For people who want improved health, association with other healthy people is usually the strongest and most direct path of change.
- The Grant Study found that “the capacity to love and be loved was the single strength most clearly associated with subjective well-being at age eighty.” "The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people."
Be A Good Person
It isn’t getting help from others that confers a long life. It is giving help.
Those who help their friends and neighbors, advising and caring for others, tend to live to old age.
The good do not die young, as the old saying goes. In fact, they live longer. Get Your Act Together
The Longevity Project found that:
"Conscientiousness, which was the best predictor of longevity when measured in childhood, also turned out to be the best personality predictor of long life when measured in adulthood… By the end of the twentieth century, 70 percent of the Terman men and 51 percent of the Terman women had died. It was the un conscientious among them who had been dying in especially large numbers."
Truly fascinating: after a heart attack, conscientious people were not only more likely to recover because they were better about taking their meds but conscientiousness was a better predictor of improvement than the medication itself.
Conscientious people who took placebo did better than the less conscientious who got the real medication.
The Longevity Project found:
"Most interesting to us, however, was that the conscientious patients (the good adherers) were much more likely to survive whether they were on the Propranolol medication or on the placebo. Being conscientious enough — adherent enough — to fully cooperate with treatment, even if with a placebo, emerged as a more important predictor of mortality risk than the medication itself. Stress Isn’t Always A Bad Thing
Don’t avoid all stress. You need some stress. Research shows those who work the hardest live the longest. Want To Live A Long Time? Make Yourself Happy
The Longevity Project found that many (but not all) of the recommendations for happiness are nearly identical to recommendations for maintaining health.
For example, those trying to improve their happiness are advised to do the following things:
- Watch less TV
- Improve social relations — spend time with friends
- Increase levels of physical activity — go for a long walk
- Help others and express gratitude to those who have helped you
- Take on new challenges to remain fresh and in-the-moment
- Laugh a lot. Be optimistic. Get enough sleep. Stay out of debt. Forgive.
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Posted - 07/14/2014 : 04:34:41
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Stay Physically Active,
Keep Your Brain Healthy with Good Thoughts
Keep Yourself Away from Harmful Drugs
Get Regular Healthcare Checkup
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