A person who eats junk foods, consumes loads of calories, smokes, drinks and is physically inactive is at a higher risk of mortality than someone with healthy habits. In fact, with a healthy life style, you can stay 10 years younger than you are.
There are four factors affecting our health, i.e. smoking, diet, physical activity and alcohol consumption. If a person smokes, takes unhealthy diet, physically inactive and drinks alcohol, that person is more like to age faster than the one who doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, follows perfect healthy diet, and is physically active.
A study was conducted among thousands of people with an age group of 16 to 90 which says that smoking seems the most harmful. Smokers have 57% higher risk of early death compared to non-smokers while the remaining three factors result in 15% increased risk. So, now imagine if a person have all the four habits in a negative way. 2.5 fold higher risk is observed to our surprise in such cases. This type of unhealthy life style impacts in long lasting effects.
A 75 year old man with healthy lifestyle have a probability of 67%, i.e. living 10 more years while for an old woman, it’s 74%. Isn’t it exciting?
So, in order to extend you life 10 more years and that too the healthy way, you just need to make sure, you lead a healthy lifestyle.