Secrets Of The Centanarians

Regardless of centenarian findings, Perls said, evidence is emerging suggesting that people can make choices affecting their longevity… good lifelong habits, such as maintaining healthy diets, exercising, practicing religion, not smoking and so on, had an average life expectancy of 88 years–about 10 years more than the United States population as a whole. Most of the added years, he said, are healthy ones with limited illness and disability.

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