Growing older shouldn’t be your goal – but rather to live longer, live better. Growing old has a negative connotation, but exceptional aging, because you’ve chosen a healthy lifestyle, is full of possibilities no matter what your birth year.

If you ever study human nature, you’ll find that there are forty-year-old people who look and act like they’re twice their age. Yet on the other side, you’ll find eighty-year-old men and women who seem half their age.

What’s the secret to their success? Have they found an internal fountain of youth? Hardly. Their success is a result of making good choices at a younger age that led to a better quality of life in the best of their years. The choices they made had long lasting effects.

How can you live longer, live better too? If you’re thinking that needing to eat right and exercise is part of the equation that will add up to a longer life, then you’re right – and it’s advice that’s good and something we should all take heed. Continue reading →

The average 20-year old person today living in a developed country has a 23% chance of living to be 100 years old.

While science has increased our life span by 30 years over time through the discovery of vaccines, lowering mortality rates and reducing disease-related deaths, there are things you can do to increase your chances at being a centenarian, like:

• Eating healthy
• Exercising
• Stop Smoking
• Staying Social

Eating Healthy

One study in 2011 found that even as an older adult, eating vegetables, fruit, poultry, low-fat dairy products and whole grains lowers your risk of dying by an additional five years. Continue reading →