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A healthy diet won’t just help you lose weight – it’ll add 10 years to your life

Posted on By Sharika Soukup
A healthy diet won’t just help you lose weight – it’ll add 10 years to your life

A healthy diet is one of the two essential components for weight loss, the other being plenty of exercise. Eating healthily means exercising good portion control and shying away from ’empty calorie’ foods like chips and donuts, stuff which gives you a quick hit of sugar or salt with no real nutritional value.  © Provided…

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Even in Your 80s, Adopting a Healthier Lifestyle Can Add Years to Your Life

Posted on By Sharika Soukup
Even in Your 80s, Adopting a Healthier Lifestyle Can Add Years to Your Life

By david Griffiths Adopting a healthier lifestyle can add years to your life—even in your 80s, according to new research from Japan. Reducing drinking, not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and increasing sleep produce the biggest gains, say scientists. They increased longevity by six years in healthy 40-year-olds. The benefits were even more prominent in…

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Switching to a Plant-Based Diet Can Add 10 Years to Your Life, Study Finds

Posted on By Sharika Soukup
Switching to a Plant-Based Diet Can Add 10 Years to Your Life, Study Finds

Consuming a plant-based diet, especially early in life, has been linked to prolonging an individual’s life by up to 10 years, a study published this week in the journal PLOS Medicine found. Researchers from Norway set out to better understand how sustained dietary differences affect life expectancy, given that dietary risk factors are estimated to…

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Healthy Living Could Offset Genetics and Add Years Free of Heart Disease

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Healthy Living Could Offset Genetics and Add Years Free of Heart Disease

MONDAY, Jan. 31, 2022 (American Heart Association News) People who follow seven rules for healthy living – such as staying physically active and eating a healthy diet – could offset a high genetic risk for heart disease, according to new research that suggests it could mean as many as 20 extra years of life free…

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De Blasio admin’s $34B health insurance contract doesn’t add up

Posted on By Sharika Soukup
De Blasio admin’s B health insurance contract doesn’t add up

The de Blasio administration missed a glaring math error when choosing a new health care insurance provider for 275,000 retired city workers that could cost taxpayers “tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars” in lost revenue, according to a bombshell claim filed by rival bidder Aetna, the state’s largest Medicare provider. Aetna has sued…

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