Lifestyle Choices
Your lifestyle choices should include good nutrition and exercise. These two choices can slow, stop, and even reverse the changes in the body once blamed on aging.
Did You Know?
- Researchers estimate that if people born today practiced good habits, the average life span could soar from the current 76 years to 100 years.
- The older brain, when challenged with new activities, can continue to develop and learn until very late in life.
- Lifestyle choices have a greater effect on aging than our genes. Studies reveal that diet, exercise, social support, spiritual support, mental stimulation and a sense of self-efficacy are the key factors that determine how well you age.
- People thinking positively about getting older live seven and a half years longer than those who think negatively.
- Anticipating a happy, funny event can raise levels of endorphins, and other pleasure relaxation inducing hormones.
- Laughter lowers the production of stress hormones.
- At least fifty percent of age related change in muscles, bones, and joints are caused disuse.