How do you live to be 100? Good genes, activity and friends.

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Experts predict that the number of centenarians — people who live to be at least 100 years old — will continue to rise in the coming decades. While genetics plays a large role in healthy aging, physical activity, social support and where you live can also influence your chances of living a very long life.

Sister André, a French Catholic nun born Lucile Randon, who was the world’s oldest living person, recently died at the age of 118. Now the two oldest living people are believed to be María Branyas Morera, a 115-year-old Spanish born

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Top secret for a long life: expert weighs in

Longevity and mental health are more linked than you might realize. “Our bodies and minds are not separate, so it’s really no surprise that our mental health and our physical health are closely connected, especially when it comes to aging,” Regina Koepp, a board-certified clinical psychologist and the founder of the Center for Mental Health and Aging, tells Yahoo Life.

Her advice: Focus on improving your mental health and longevity, while also working on your physical health. “Maintaining your mental health is actually the key to living a long and fulfilling and healthy life,” she says. Working on your mental

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The benefits of brain health to our economy

When we consider the value of good brain health in aging, it is only natural that we think of what it means for individuals who wish to live their most fulfilling lives. But an often-overlooked benefit of brain health is what it can mean for an entire society when its older population is more cognitively resilient — specifically, the positive effect that a mentally sharp workforce brings to the larger economy (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: Six pillars of brain health and the economic and social benefits.
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AARP created the six pillars to describe key recommendations for individuals from the Global

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These Three Simple Habits Will Help You Lead A Healthy Life

If your new year’s resolution is to stay healthy, don’t miss nutritionist Anjali Mukerjee’s latest Instagram video.


These Three Simple Habits Will Help You Lead A Healthy Life

Avoid processed foods as much as possible

For many, new year’s resolutions and a healthy lifestyle go hand-in-hand. We are sure most of us may have made plans to embrace healthy habits to stay fit and fine in the coming year. Is it true? After all, many of us have understood the importance of being healthy, especially after the whole pandemic. Everyone knows that it’s very important to eat healthy food and exercise every single day. However, everything dumbs down to

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Swapping sugar for sultanas and more top healthy life tips

“I am not very fit, but heading in the right direction” ….the first steps towards a healthier life helped by a new Norfolk-based Ready to Change platform.

A plan, some help and the goal of only making very small, very gradual changes is helping people in Norfolk towards achievable health goals.

Among those making the most of the recently-launched Ready to Change campaign is Brandon March, a 26 year old who works in IT in Norwich.

Brandon describes himself as “not very fit, but heading in the right direction” and with his partner is taking ideas from Ready to Change.

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I was stunned by how fast people walked when I first visited the City of London. It was a world apart from how I grew up in the furthest of south Europe, where we would take our time to enjoy the scenery and chat with people on the street almost every time we went somewhere on foot.

A fast walk is a sign of determination and is a habit of go-getters. These are people who know what they want, and they go for it without hesitation. This article will tell the

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Take small steps to achieve a healthy lifestyle in the new year | Entertainment/Life

When it comes to eating, the new year should be more about establishing healthy lifestyle changes than setting impossible diet goals.

“It’s all about adding healthy lifestyle changes that you can do along the way so that you won’t be miserable,” said Rosa Folgar, family medical doctor for Ochsner Health in Baton Rouge.

Folgar said, bottom line, people will get off track.

“Where do you have a birthday party or people bring king cake for the next two months — but keep in mind that you are human,” she said. “What you do is one meal at a time to

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