A healthy lifestyle can help you to keep in mind an older age

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We know that a healthy lifestyle (no smoking, regular exercise, maintaining a normal body weight) provides long-term benefits. The recently concluded 35-year study shows how big these benefits, not only for the body but for the mind.

The study, entitled "Caerphilly Cohort Study" began in 1979. Researchers recorded on health habits in 2235, five middle-aged men (from 49 years to 59 years) from the UK. Over the next three decades, the participants were monitored for the risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and death. It is worth noting that meant death for any reason - from illness to an accidental fall down the stairs with a fatal outcome.

To monitor a healthy lifestyle, researchers tracked the five specific habits:

Regular exercise (eg, daily walks a distance of over three kilometers or daily charge); Smoking cessation; Normal weight; Healthy eating (three or more servings of fruits and / or vegetables per day and less than 30% of calories from fat food); Small alcohol (three units or less per day). After analyzing the results, researchers found that participants who have four or five habits of this list, by as much as 70% less likely to suffer from diabetes, heart disease and stroke. In addition, the risk of death for them was reduced by 60%, not to mention the later aging and an additional six years of life.

Furthermore, these people noted decline in cognitive disorders and dementia for 60%. Factors that have the greatest impact on it, there were exercise. The researchers say that this may be due to the stimulation of vascular metabolic and emotional ways.

via factroom.ru