When looking at the title, please do not think that I am a girl of science. It was just because the teacher required me to read some articles from the book "Topic for Today" and make a critical response to hand in next week. Anyway, a essay named "Who lives longer" somewhat interested me, so I decided to write a summary in order to have a short review on the article before going to bed and share with you some "tactics to increase life expectancy". According to what I have learnt in Biology and petty knowledge from "nearly a decade" of reading health magazines for my grandfather , I assure that women were born to live seven or eight years longer than men because of the difference in gene structure. (of course, everyone is well-aware of it without my mention). Apart from gender, race and heredity are also decisive factors to life expectancy. He called those factors "fixed factors" - you cannot change it. What you can only do to increase your life span is change the "changeable factors" - your longevity is within your ability to control. : Women can add up to 7 years to their lives and men 11 - 12 years. This part includes new knowledge to me, and obviously interested me most.- Health practices:1. Don't smoke2. If you drink, do so moderately (don't be like this )3. Eat breakfast regularly (I know this before, hoho)4. Don't eat between meals (it's difficult) 5. Maintain normal weight (impossible) 6. Sleep about eight hours at night (if you sleep more or less than eight hours, your life expectancy will be minus - My's addition, hehe)7. Exercise moderately (don't overdose anything even when you like it)Cutting calories (eating less) has an incredible effect on the aging process. It is the best change you can make to lengthen your life span. It was unbelievable to me.- Social integration (social relationship): If you are a part of a family network, are married, participate in structured group, you live longer. However, to women, larger networks of relationship tend to be not advantageous to them all the time. For some women, increase in relationship means increase in demands.- Job satisfaction: if you have a good, desirable job, you are likely to live longer- Environment: don't live in polluted environment (is there any place unpolluted in the world to live?) Though everything is just theory, hope that people who read it will somehow find it interesting and most importantly, lengthen their lives.
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Thanks for sharing, Micle Lee!!!
Very informative! Well done!
Very informative blog, Micle Lee!
And you wrote it in a quite funny way, that's why I enjoyed reading it a lot.