Measures including healthy sleep and regular exercise may slow pace of body’s biological ageing
Keeping body weight, blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure in check while maintaining healthy sleep and eating regimes, doing regular physical activity and not smoking may slow the ageing process by around six years, US experts say.
Researchers said people with the best cardiovascular health were about six years younger biologically – the pace at which they have aged for every year alive – than their actual age. Life’s Essential 8 aims to define heart health based on four modifiable lifestyle measures and four modifiable health markers.
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