A new study has found that living a healthy lifestyle can lead to more disease-free years later in life. People as a whole are living longer, but the later years are often filled with diseases like cancer or diabetes. This new study isolated five different lifestyle factors like exercising and smoking, and scored people based on those five. Lower scores correlated with more disease-free years later in life. This suggests that policies supporting healthy lifestyles can lead to longer and happier lives for all.

Key Takeaways:

• A new study finds that keeping a healthy lifestyle and avoiding smoking is a key factor in living a longer life free of disease.
• While life expectancy in general is going up, older people still tend to suffer from cardiovascular disease, cancer, or diabetes.
• Five risk factors, like smoking history and BMI, are correlated with more disease-free years later in life.

“life expectancy free of any of these chronic diseases was 24 years among men who adopted no low-risk lifestyle factors and 31 years in men who adopted four or five low-risk lifestyle factors”

Read more: https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/health/2020/01/29/healthy-habits-in-middle-age-linked-to-longer-life-free-from-disease