Live to 100 - How To Live to 100

Live to 100 with these tips and facts on healthy aging and disease prevention. Learn how you can achieve successful aging and live to 100 in good health and happiness.

1. Be Social, Live Longer (19)
2. Energize Your Life (9)
3. For All Ages (10)
4. Longevity To-Dos (11)

TV Shortens Your Life

Too much television is bad for you -- but researchers now have done a study that shows just how much additional risk you are at if you watch tons of TV every day. In fact, your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease may increase as much as 80% if you watch TV more than 4 hours a day.

Top Ten Aging Challenges

Aging well means facing the challenges of aging with a strategy. The University of Texas Medical School, Division of Palliative Medicine put forth a list of 10 Aging Challenges. I will give you information and ideas on how to prevent or minimize your risk for each of these ten challenges.

Real Life Longevity Habits

When writing about longevity, one of the most popular questions I get is "What do you do for longevity?" and I've decided to answer it here. There ideas and habits below are what I do (or at least try to do) to live healthy and feel good. These are longevity ideas that I have come upon in my 2 + years of reading and writing about longevity. Of course, there are a lot more things out there that yo…

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Ray Kurzweil Explains the Coming Singularity

How to eat like an Italian

Very often I am asked: how do Italians manage to eat so much while they are so thin? People coming to Italy for the first time seem to be under the impression that every day Italians eat the same type of multi-course meal that is offered in a restaurant. First timers seem to be also convinced that the whole population survives on spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, veal parmesan and pizza, all smothered in vast amounts of cheese and tomato sauce.

I actually don’t think that Italians are that thin – may be I see myself in the mirror – but that’s another story. Modern Italians are busy people, like anybody else in the world. They go to their work, suffer through fast food lunches, crash on the couch in the evening. No siesta, that’s for babies and pensioners.

However, if they have the time or they are lucky enough to live near their work, Italians definitely prefer to eat a warm meal at home. Italians love their home food.

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How to Reverse Aging

Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process.

Exercise, Longevity and Life Expectancy

Exercise Adds Years to Your Life

One study found that the average 65-year-old can expect an additional 12.7 years of healthy life –- meaning he will live disability-free until age 77.7. Highly active 65-years-olds, however, have an additional 5.7 years of healthy life expectancy –- they will remain disability free until age 83.4.

Another study found that increasing physical activity after age 50 can add years to one’s life. In the study, individuals with and without cardiovascular disease were compared by the amount of physical activity they did. Men who were moderately active added 1.3 years to their lives and those who were highly active added 3.7 years. Women who were moderately active added 1.1 years and those were highly active added 3.2 years. In addition, people who exercised more also lived more years free of cardiovascular disease. While moderate exercise increases life expectancy, highly active people more than doubled the benefits.

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