5 Ways Men Can Live Longer

Living past 90, and living well, may be more than a matter of good genes and good luck. Five behaviors in elderly men are associated not only with living into extreme old age, a new study has found, but also with good health and independent functioning.

The behaviors are abstaining from smoking, weight management, blood pressure control, regular exercise and avoiding diabetes. The study reports that all are significantly correlated with healthy survival after 90.

While it is hardly astonishing that choices like not smoking are associated with longer life, it is significant that these behaviors in the early elderly years -- all of them modifiable -- so strongly predict survival into extreme old age.

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Comments

[UNCLEJOE]

Smoking is not only a killer, it is a very slow tortuous killer. Smoking is just one way of committing suicide the prolonged way. I quit marijuana and alcohol in 1959 with little trouble, but quitting smoking took me three tries over a period of 3 years. But quitting smoking was the best favor I did for myself. It was not easy, but I love good health and longevity. At 47 I even became sexually abstinent; it was easier than quitting smoking, because I wasn't getting any action anyway.

At 85, I attribute my survival to abstaining from alcohol, smoking, sugar, salt, and sex, fried foods, eating in restaurants and sex, staying out of the sun, avoiding negative persons and sex, avoiding shark infested waters, staying away from Iraq, and did I mention sex?

[SelfishHedonist]

As an EX-smoker, I'd like to see a study done that factors this in...

[NedFlanders19]

While having a longer life is all fine and good, isn't the most important thing to fully live with whatever time we have?