Adding Life to Your Years and Years to Your Life

Over half the US baby-boomers will see their 100^th birthday

The ten mid-life risk factors for dying young

1. Body-mass index of 25 or more
2. High blood glucose
3. High triglyceride levels
4. High blood pressure
5. Inability to squeeze at least 86 pound of pressure with a handheld device
6. Smoking
7. Consuming three or more alcoholic drinks daily
8. Failing to graduate from high school
9. Being unmarried
10.  Having a moving traffic violation during the past three years

Ten ways to live longer

• Have parents who live a long time
• Exercise 60 minutes six times daily
• Have an optimistic personality = 55% lower risk of death
• Drink 3-5 ounces of red wine daily.  Resveratrol a molecule found in red wine may prolong life by enhancing SIR2
• Increase socializing with happy, interesting, positive friends
• Love someone who loves you in return
• Cultivate a spiritual life
• Serve and help others
• Have something to look forward too
• Find work you enjoy
• Don’t worry, be happy. “In life you will have some trouble, if you worry you make it double.”
• Weigh 10% less than your ideal weight—the only guaranteed way to exceed life expectancy. Evidence suggests that a semi-starvation diet causes stress that activates SIR2 and related genes (collectively known as Sirtuins) that improve health and prolong life.