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Birdseye: Health Tips from the Blogosphere

How to live longer and age healthily

What are the secrets of longevity?  To celebrate the launch of our free report on ‘100 Ways to Live to be 100’, I have scoured the web for more tips on living longer. 
Living Longer: 5 tips from the blogosphere

1.  Get a good night’s sleep: Mark Stibich outlines the health benefits of sleep, which include keeping your heart healthy and possibly reducing the risk of cancer. (Mark Stibich, ‘Top 10 Health Benefits of a Good Night’s Sleep’) 

2.  Live conscientiously: This article from World Articles Net outlines a study in which people who received low scores for conscientiousness died sooner. (World Articles Net, ‘Ten Ways to Live Longer’)

3.  Stay connected: This guide to maintaining good health in old age cites research indicating that those who seek out social activities are more likely to live longer than those who do not. (Nancy Montgomery, ‘Healthy Aging 101, Part 4: Staying Connected’)

4.  Get a pet:  According to this post, people who own pets, particularly dogs, are more likely to survive heart attacks, and normally have lower blood pressure. (ramilcvaliente.blogspot.com, ‘15 Ways to Live Longer’)

5.  Drink green tea: Further to this post on Adverse Reactions explaining why green tea is so good for us, this post commends the health benefits of green tea and gives an overview of some of the brands available. (d.i.y. naturally, ‘Green Tea the Superhealthy Elixir’)

10 tips for a healthy lifestyle

WDDTY’s comprehensive free report offers 100 ways to live to be 100.  As part of that report we offer 10 tips for a healthy lifestyle.  They are:

1. Choose a reasonably vigorous exercise programme you love and stick with it regularly.

2. Do not settle for anything less than challenging work or activity.

3. Try to be of service to others, on or off the job.

4. Reduce the number of poisons you put in your body.

5. Make your home a sanctuary and refuge.

6. Be connected with others and yourself.

7. Cultivate some sort of spiritual connection, whether with a god or a less directed religious entity.

8. Engage in regular relaxation techniques, particularly those which calm the mind as well as the body.

9. Don't hold grudges: cultivate a sense of forgiveness, of your enemies, your family, your parents.

10. Take responsibility for your own health.

These tips are explained here.  To claim your full report on 100 ways to live to be 100, click here.

More advice for living longer and living healthily

WDDTY’s archive is packed with advice on how to live longer by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  Here is an overview of the articles available.

Tips for a Healthy Diet: Diet is an essential aspect of living healthily.  This article provides some excellent diet tips for staying healthy and living longer.

Live long and well - Eat the mediterranean diet: Outlines research suggesting that following a diet low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat and dietary fibre can increase your chances of living longer.

Living Longer: This guide by Harald Gaier, a registered naturopath, homoeopath, and osteopath, explains how to reduce the risk of developing conditions such as angina, respiratory problems and coronary heart disease.

Healthy, Oldest and Wise: Harald Gaier explains the secrets of the world’s longest living humans – the villagers of Silanus in central Sardinia, and the inhabitants of the seaside village Ogimi, on the Japanese island of Okinawa.


FREE REPORT: Discover 100 ways to live to be 100

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Published 29 June 2007 15:23 by Birdseye

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VeronicasLore.com » How to live longer and age healthily said:

July 2, 2007 23:13
 

GaryClark said:

Roy Walford was probably the worlds most impressive advocate of healthy living – nutrition and diet restriction (CRM) - as a means of achieving longevity. Unfortunately, Roy died a couple of years ago, aged 79.

If this tells us anything, it’s that healthy living can only achieve results in the context of the ‘natural lifespan’ of the human body and the state of a particular body (in Roy’s case, for example, he developed a terminal illness).

Any amount of research data suggests that while CRM will improve indicators of good health that should lead to greater longevity, it is not the answer if you want to live beyond your ‘natural span’.

This sounds rather too obvious until you consider that the notion of modulating the aging process itself. By this, I mean slowing, or stopping altogether, the senescent process that leads to old age and, ultimately, death. This is perfectly possible, but not with lifestyle or health regimes, because aging appears to be a form of stress that is, in turn, psychosomatic.

Yes, I know this sounds like science fiction – or worse – but my results to date indicate that it isn’t. I can’t post a dozen pages here, but if you want more information, mail me (garyclark@fastmail.fm) and I’ll send you these as a pdf.

July 3, 2007 10:47
 

Birdseye: Health Tips from the Blogosphere said:

The Paleolithic diet, also known as the stone age or caveman diet, is often cited as a good alternative

August 17, 2007 17:15

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