Want to Live to 100?
Longevity has increasingly become a topic of interest in recent years, especially since healthcare measures have greatly improved and research has been done to discover centenarians’ secrets to success. Back in the year 1860, the average life expectancy of an American was only 39.4. By 2020, it rose to 78.9. And as the United States Census Bureau reported in 2020, that number will rise to 85.6 by the year 2060.
Those who live in the so-called “Blue Zones” have been increasingly studied since the early 2000s—these are people in five particular locations around the globe, like Okinawa, Japan and Loma Linda, California, who seem to have certain traits in common that help them reach the ripe old age of 90 and even 100. So, according to the experts we interviewed, what are four common habits that almost everyone who lives to be very old has in common? The answer might surprise you.
Why Should We Value Longevity in Our Everyday Lives? Dr. Raghav Sehgal. Ph.D., Director of the Healthy Longevity Clinic at Yale, says that valuing longevity in our everyday lives and habits is really about wanting to live the best life we can, for as long as we can.
Excerpted from Yahoo! News
