4 Health Behaviors Can Add 14 Extra Years Of Life is a title of a post I read on this page, http://biosingularity.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/4-health-behaviors-can-add-14-extra-years-of-life/ which I believe is a blog about healthy living.
It states that “people who adopt four healthy behaviours – not smoking; taking exercise; moderate alcohol intake; and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day – live on average an additional fourteen years of life compared with people who adopt none of these behaviours, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine.”
I do agree with the claim, however it is something that does not apply to everyone as there is one important factor that prevents people living this way… POVERTY.
If you are poor you can not be choosy of what to eat, you eat what you can either FIND, what is AVAILABLE or can AFFORD.
Exercise? Yes… that is possible, if people have any extra time for it, if they can squeeze it into their day, aside from maybe holding 2 to 3 odd jobs just to survive.
In most impoverished countries, people take to vices such as smoking and drinking as their reprieve on the realities of their existence, these are the simple pleasures that they can afford (and in many cases they actually cannot afford it but indulge in it still) In 3rd world countries cigarette and liquor companies know this and capitalize on it by churning out very cheap cigarettes and very cheap booze that gets you buzzed quickly. In some cultures, social drinking actually means a group of people, pitching in to afford cheap liquor, pass around one glass with equal amounts of alcohol (in the spirit of camaraderie and fair sharing?), and each taking a shot when their turn comes.
So, yes I agree these would work, given that you are a person who can afford it… and unaffected by societal and cultural influences, that prevail in the area, city, country where a person lives.
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