Study: Veg diet could add 6-9 years to lifespan

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Longevity: Is it true that Seventh-day Adventists live longer?

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According to a 12-year study of 34,0000 Seventh-day Adventists in California

released in 2001, the " lifestyle habits practiced by many Seventh-day Adventists

contribute to a longer-than-average life expectancy. " The study was researched

at the Loma Linda University Center for Health Research. (Interestingly the city

of Loma Linda, which is home to many Adventists, was cited by National

Geographic as one of three places in the world where residents live

exceptionally long lives, with the other two cities being Okinawa and Sardinia.)

 

 

Researchers discovered that the life expectancy of a 30-year-old vegetarian

Adventist woman was 85.7 years, and 83.3 years for a vegetarian Adventist man.

This exceeds the life expectancies of other Californians by 6.1 years for women

and 9.5 years for men. Non-vegetarian Adventist women in the group had a life

expectancy of 84 years, and non-vegetarian men, 81 years.

The lifestyle factors that were tracked by the study and were shown to be

statistically significant in predicting longevity included regular exercise,

vegetarian diet, smoking history, body weight, and (interestingly) whether they

ate a small serving of nuts five to six times a week.

 

Demonstrating the effect of lifestyle on longevity (as opposed to being an

Adventist), " life expectancy dropped nine to 10 years for Adventists who were

overweight, past smokers, and non-vegetarian, and who did not exercise or eat

nuts regularly. "

If you want to increase your chance of one day being called a " centenarian " and

enjoy more healthy years of living then consider the lifestyle factors above

" best practices " to incorporate into your own life.