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Lifestyle: Personal Decisions a Prime Cause of Premature Death
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Lifestyle: Environmental Factors Causing Premature Aging & Death
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Lifestyle: Habits like Obesity and insufficient Sleep Causing Premature Aging & Death
Teeth and Longevity
This might seem absurd to many; a person’s teeth does highly influence longevity. Science has shown that dental health is associated to our overall health. In other words, a poor dental health makes one vulnerable to a dozen of health predicaments. It is a fact that a pretty clean mouth has more than hundred-billions bacteria present and the number of germs in an insufficiently cleaned mouth is beyond charts.
A chronic inflammatory oral disease known as Periodontitis is affecting nearly 75 percent of adults in America. This inflammatory disease does negatively affect our overall health. It does even make one more prone to respiratory disease, diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis. It does also frequently cause problems for pregnant women and can instigate cardiovascular diseases like heart attack, coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis and congestive heart failure.
Mouth cleanliness is a basic prerequisite for longevity. A poor dental health can carry the same precursors as smoking.
Here are a few strategies to keep your mouth clean and healthy:
1. Rinse your mouth with mouth-wash or warm salt water; salt water kills bacteria and removes debris.
2. Constantly brush your teeth; accumulative debris from food particles increases exposure to germs.
3. Appropriate diet; consume food with a high degree of phosphorus and calcium to revitalize your teeth
Relationship & Longevity
Loving relationships influence how long we live. Eventually, we know that some marriages aren’t as good as others, they can even be bad for your health. However, on average research has shown that married men outlive single men. One of the reasons for this is that women are more caring and convince men to have proper diets. But, the factor contributing most to longevity comes from our psychological state derived from warm and loving relationships while loneliness negatively affects longevity.
It is a clear-cut fact that people who have intimate relationships, close friends and adoring pets are happier, healthier but most importantly they live much longer in comparison to those who do not have. In other words, the more socially connected you are to people the longer can you live. If you are in an unhappy relationship it is necessary to either fix it or to end it.
Moreover, it is not necessary to be married; close friendship does equally contribute to longevity benefits. A health relationship is one where you feel strong self-esteem. Self-esteem is a factor associated to longevity.
In loving relationship habits like mutual massage or therapeutic massage do significantly act as a benefit. Besides, if you find it difficult to love a person, why don’t consider a pet? The best with pets is that they won’t try to break up with you so you can have a long-lived relationship without quarrel or discussions; pets do not answer back.
People who you hang out with highly influence your longevity. If you have friends who have a positive attitude and who are health-conscious then you have a good chance to live longer. However, if your friends adopt negative habits such as smoking, drinking or overeating and additionally view life in a pessimistic way than your chance of living long is feeble.
We should understand that our genetic makeup accounts only for 25 to 35 percent of our longevity potentials. This means that healthy relationships and lifestyle factors can clearly contribute to a few years or decades of your lifespan.
Financial Factors
Finance is a key factor for longevity. This is certainly true after having gone through a terrible credit-crunch (2008-2009). The truth is that the most promising life-extending technologies and treatment will be provided to those who afford it. Those who are old and broke might miss their chance.
Through centuries, we have been told to secure money for our future. Those who are old and broke might regret their past if technologies that could rejuvenate you to the age of 25-years came-out on the market.
Let’s say it would cost $500,000 to buy youth. If one would place $30,000 on a fix deposit with an annual interest of 10 %, in less than three decades the sum would be equivalent to $500,000. The annual growth of the stock market is around 10 percent as well, so you can choose your way to make money grow.
However, $30,000 is a huge sum of money so you might have to start to save $3,000 annually in a similar method. In a couple of years, you will reach your magical $500,000. The cost of full rejuvenation is still uncertain so take the precaution and save as much as possible – youth might soon be a commodity -.
Disaster Planning
We live in a feeble and unstable environment. Our fragile economy induces stress, and natural calamities are undeniable causes of death. There is a dozen of precautions that can be taken to annihilate or rather minimize these dangers.
1. Establish a security system to assure that your home is safe.
2. Ensure that you have at least a stock of all necessary goods like candles, batteries, antibiotics and a stable food as well as water supply for 30 days. This could save your life during wild-spread wars or riots.
3. Live in a safe and sound neighbourhood
4. Assure that you have a low profile to avoid making you a tempting target for buglers and other invaders.
This is certainly a gloomy attitude with a high degree of pessimism. However, to secure our future all possible dangers should be considered to eradicate their potential menace.
The aging process is influenced by various factors. We should understand that if it isn’t our genes or environments that kill’s us, it is our lifestyle. So by now we know that lifestyle accounts for few decades of longevity. Simple daily actions can trigger immense improvement to your general health.
Exercising is a necessary lifestyle factor for longevity. It can help you to stay young. It even provides enthusiasm and vitality to your life. We shouldn’t be pessimistic, but if we are here is some surprising news. It is never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle simply follow advices given by radical life-extensionists.
Read Part 1
Lifestyle: Personal Decisions a Prime Cause of Premature Death
Read Part 2
Lifestyle: Environmental Factors Causing Premature Aging & Death
Read Part 3:
Lifestyle: Habits like Obesity and insufficient Sleep Causing Premature Aging & Death
Summary of healthy attitudes: Seven Steps to Longevity; Recommendation From Maximum Life Foundation
Source: Source: Maximum Life Foundation: David A. Kekich, CEO, Maximum Life Foundation
Wed, Sep 1, 2010
Lifestyle