Alcohol Consumption And Longevity

A Direct Link Between Alcohol Consumption and Longevity

The following tip related to excessive alcohol consumption directly affects your longevity and is amazingly easy to manipulate.

Excessive Alcohol Consumption

"97 – Percentage more likely that you’ll reach age 85 if you keep your daily alcohol consumption to fewer than three drinks a day.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed nearly 6,000 patients to determine which lifestyle factors increased the odds that subjects would live to age 85. Factors such as marriage and limited alcohol consumption were major predictors of longevity."

Basically if you drink no more than three drinks a day you can double your chances of reaching 85 years of age. This coupled with eating fish regularly should easily extend life and increase your life expectancy rate.

I'd encourage you to click through to read more longevity tips and to check out some of the potential pitfalls of alcohol consumption in the following piece: Brain Size and Alcohol Consumption.

Related To Excessive Alcohol Consuption
Additionally, this finding in longevity odds seems to correlate directly with the finding that binge drinking increases your chance of stroke. Maybe those who drink a lot and die before 85 die more frequently due to stroke or stroke related complications and those who limit their drinking end up lasting longer because they are less likely to have a stroke. Hmm.

Source
This quote was from the March 2009 issue of Best Life.