Top News : Want to lower your risk of early death? These activities are most beneficial

How to live a long life.

Here are those four factors, all within your control.

Don't smoke. Although your best plan to live longer is to adopt all four lifestyle factors, if you had to choose one, the researchers say, this is it. ...
Maintain a healthy weight. ...
Get up and move. ...
Make healthy food choices.

What is the secret to live longer?

The bottom line

Longevity may seem beyond your control, but many healthy habits may lead you to a ripe, old age. These include drinking coffee or tea, exercising, getting enough sleep, and limiting your alcohol intake. Taken together, these habits can boost your health and put you on the path to a long life.

Lose excess weight. Do more physical activity – ideally, at least 30 minutes every day. Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. Reduce or eliminate dietary salt – reducing your salt intake by 3g per day lowers blood pressure, but the effect is doubled with a 6g per day reduction and tripled with a 9g per day reduction.

Risk factors for early deaths.

It found that the most common risk factors for disease and early death.

Tobacco smoking
High blood pressure
High blood cholesterol
Obesity
Excessive alcohol consumption
Physical inactivity.

You can dramatically reduce your risk of early death by making a few simple lifestyle changes.
The most common causes of illness and premature death in Victoria include tobacco smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption and physical inactivity.
Being a non-smoker, eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly and limiting alcohol consumption can reduce your risk of many potentially lethal diseases such as heart disease, stroke and cancer.

What can help you live up to 7 years longer?

Eating less food will extend your life by as much as seven years. Caloric restriction predictably reduces common health problems like diabetes, cancer, heart disease and cognitive decline as well as the likelihood of obesity and insulin resistance.

Why do Japanese live longer?

Japanese life expectancy

This low mortality is mainly attributable to a low rate of obesity, low consumption of red meat, and high consumption of fish and plant foods such as soybeans and tea. In Japan, the obesity rate is low (4.8% for men and 3.7% for women).

Want to live a longer, healthier life? Pick an activity you enjoy, and get moving. Choose just about anything -- running, swimming laps, playing tennis, cycling, golf, racket sports or even walking for exercise.

All of these leisure activities appear to lower the risk of early death, as well as death from cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to a new study.

The study from the National Cancer Institute analyzed responses from over 272,000 people between the ages of 59 and 82 who completed questionnaires about their leisure time activities as part of the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, a longitudinal study of the relationship between diet and health.

The study researchers followed participants for a dozen or so years and analyzed health records for deaths from cancer, heart disease and any cause.

Physical activity guidelines in the United States recommend that American adults do 2.5 to 5 hours of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity or 1.25 to 2.5 hours of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity each week.

Any combination of aerobic-based activity done for the recommended amount of time per week was associated with a 13% lower risk of death from any cause when compared with doing none of the activities, the researchers found.

Aerobic activity done for the recommended amount of time per week was associated with 13% lower risk of death from any cause compared with inactivity, the study said.

Playing racket sports had the highest return for cardiovascular issues: There was a 27% reduction in risk for death from heart disease and a 16% reduction in early death. The largest reduction in cancer risk (19%) was associated with running, while running reduced risk of an early death by 15%, the study said.

Walking for exercise was the most beneficial for lowering the risk of early death after racket sports and running, the study found.

All the activities studied were associated with some lower risks of death, the study found.

"Participation in any of the activities was associated with lower mortality in comparison with those who did not participate in each activity, including moderate-intensity activities," wrote study author Eleanor Watts, a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The study could only show an association, not a full cause and effect.