It's tried-and-true advice -- eat better, get some exercise, quit smoking, and you'll live longer. But how much longer? A new study shows you might just add a full decade -- 10 years of good-quality living.
"Even making modest changes [in lifestyle] looks like it adds many years to your life," says Gary Fraser, MBChB, PhD, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Loma Linda (Calif.) University. His study appears in the July 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
For the study -- which he began in 1976 -- Fraser sent questionnaires to more than 34,000 men and women, all members of the California Seventh-Day Adventist Church and all over age 30. Each was asked numerous, detailed questions regarding medical history, weight and height, diet, level of physical activity, and smoking habits.
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