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What we do know, from this new paper, is that if you are a 30-year-old male, you can be expected to have sex for 35 more years. The authors - Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau and researcher Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago - call this measure your "sexually active life expectancy," or SALE. A 30-year-old woman has a SALE of just 31 more years. (The study also finds that men and women who stay healthy and in good shape gain extra years of sexually active life in older age, compared with their peers in poorer health...
...Dr. Lu Wang, preventive-health experts at Brigham conducted the first long-term study of women's drinking habits and weight gain. The study involved 19,220 women over the age of 38 who were of normal weight. Researchers asked the women about their alcohol consumption over the past year and recorded how much of four different types of alcoholic beverages they consumed - beer, red wine, white wine and liquor. The researchers measured the average ethanol content of each beverage and then calculated each volunteer's average alcohol intake; they also weighed each woman five times over the course...
...daily) were 30% less likely to be overweight and nearly 70% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers, the team found. "We certainly don't want to encourage nondrinkers to adopt alcohol as a method for weight control, but we were surprised by the strength of the association," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's and a co-author of the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...worth noting that while replacing some foods with alcohol may seem like an enticing weight-loss loophole, it isn't necessarily good for health. "Displacing 200 calories or so from food with alcohol probably has a detrimental effect on diet quality and on overall health," notes Dr. David Katz, director and co-founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. "If you look meticulously at nutrient intake, there might be important deficiencies there...
...Dr. Oz's nicely written "Living Long and Living Well" advised, "Finally, have a purpose." Life's purpose should be understood early in life, or the journey will be like an aimless drive without proper directions. According to the Hindu philosophy, which advocates a long, happy, healthy and blissful life, the primary purpose of life is to righteously do one's duty, with honesty, love and justice. Yoga and meditation provide the techniques for gaining a long, blissful life...