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What Can Help You Live Up To 100 Years
Tracking 855 Swedish men born in 1913, researchers have come to the conclusion that refraining from smoking, maintaining healthy cholesterol levels and having not more than four cups of coffee a day can help you live to 100.
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg have followed the health of 855 men for the past 50 years.
The first surveys were conducted in 1963. Now that it has been determined that ten of the men lived to 100, the study is being wrapped up and the researchers believe that conclusions can be drawn about the secrets to their longevity.
“The unique design has enabled us to identify the factors that influence survival after the age of 50,” said Lars Wilhelmsen, who has been involved in the study for the past 50 years.
“Our recommendation for people who aspire to centenarianism is to refrain from smoking, maintain healthy cholesterol levels and confine themselves to four cups of coffee a day,” Wilhelmsen noted.
It also helps if you paid a high rent for a flat or owing a house at age 50 (indicating good socio-economic standard), enjoy robust working capacity at a bicycle test when you are 54 and have a mother who lived for a long time, the study pointed out.
“Our findings that there is a correlation with maternal but not paternal longevity are fully consistent with a previous studies,” Wilhelmsen said.
Various surveys at the age of 54, 60, 65, 75, 80 and 100 permitted the researchers to consider the factors that appear to promote longevity.
A total of 27 percent (232) of the original group lived to the age of 80 and 13 percent (111) to 90. All in all, 1.1 percent of the subjects made it to their 100th birthday.
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tutu
May 10, 2015 at 9:17 pm
w@s the point?
Hello Haters
May 11, 2015 at 9:26 am
Stup_ d article, we got a lot of deranged psychopaths, we need to deal with, who are taking our country’s economy down the sewer drain, and reaching a 100 for most of our people is nothing but a pipe dream, only until PFool is chucked out and people with serious agenda for this country start running the affairs of this country will that come to fruition. FORWARD BANE.
daily drinking officer
May 11, 2015 at 2:32 pm
Who the f**k wants to live up to 100?
Mambilima
May 11, 2015 at 10:06 pm
I do
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 8:39 pm
Elect the upnd in and see the life expectancy increase. Higher standard of living
Chibwili
May 13, 2015 at 11:27 am
Iwe sta nyoko upnd nilesa 2 increase life expectance
New Educated Zambia©
May 13, 2015 at 8:07 pm
kiki typical of the pf cadres. they only have insults in their rock of heads. very dull
Lungu christopher
May 14, 2015 at 12:58 pm
UPND stand for USELESS PEOPLE FOR NATIONAL DISASTER what else can upnd do apart from distroyn the nation?
New Educated Zambia©
May 14, 2015 at 1:06 pm
ah lungu things are bad. take heart
Chibwili
May 14, 2015 at 2:10 pm
Ukafwafwe na bp chikala tamwakatekepa
New Educated Zambia©
May 14, 2015 at 6:55 pm
kiki ukose