Longevity

I was inspired today by a segment on Racheal Ray about a 90yo fitness trainer... the man looked 70, tops, and moved around like a 50yo! He also rides motorcycles, works out regularly and encourages everyone to exercise daily, even for just one hour. He was very inspiring. (http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/90-year-old-fitness-trainer/)

Regardless of the reason you get involved with exercise and healthy eating, healthy living into your 90's and beyond is attainable!

Take a few moments to take the living to 100 life expectancy quiz http://calculator.livingto100.com, while you take the quiz note the topics that you could improve on like:

• Limiting meat consumption, especially processed meats
• floss daily
• avoiding second hand smoke
• noting how often you have a bowel movement and increasing fiber in your diet
• play challenging games like scrabble and chess to work on brain activity
• if your doctor agrees, take an 81mg aspirin daily
• if your doctor agrees, take a vitamin D and calcium supplement daily
• get skin cancer examinations
• get your blood sugar checked if you haven’t already
• get a routine check-up
• add 1 day of exercise to your current routine

In addition to calculated your life expectancy, the quiz will give you great insight into healthy habits, some of which you may not think of at all.

After you get your life expectancy another quiz to consider is the one on realage.com which similarly takes your habits and determines what age you are biologically rather than chronologically.

Both quizzes are interesting and worth taking the 10 or so minutes to complete but the real work comes in changing the habits that hurt your score!