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3 Easy (And Fun) Daily Habits to Extend Your Life
What if your vices could actually help you live longer?
A recent study followed 1700 nonagenarians to determine what makes people live to age 90 and beyond.
And the results are almost too good to be true.
The study revealed these 3 daily habits that increase longevity:
Drink Beer and Wine
That’s right — drinking alcohol was shown to have a statistically-significant impact on living longer, even when controlling for other factors.
Specifically, people who drank about two glasses of beer or wine a day (a glass is about 5 oz.) were 18% less likely to experience a premature death than those who abstained from alcohol.
“I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity,” said University of California neurologist and lead researcher Claudia Kawas.
This is consistent with studies of centenarians from the world’s Blue Zones regions — the places around the world with the highest life expectancy — where they often drink up to two glasses of wine every day as a way to downshift from the stressors of daily life.
So it’s possible that a daily happy hour extends your life by shedding stress. We know that stress…
