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A healthy lifestyle may be the key to living disease-free

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A healthy lifestyle may be the key to living disease-free, according to international research, which investigated how our lifestyles influence the development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart, and respiratory diseases, and cancer. The study looked at the lifestyle of over 116,000 participants between the ages of 40 and 75, and found that having a low body mass index (BMI), combined with two out of three from non-smoking, physically active, and moderate alcohol consumption, significantly increased the number of years that the person would be disease-free.

Journal/conference: JAMA Original Investigation

Link to research (DOI): 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.0618

Organisation/s: University of Helsinki, Finland

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