How to live long? When you ask this, you know there is no answer on the other side.
Everyone including you aspires to live long, but alas, there is no such algorithm available to solve the mystery. Just go through the article may be you change your mind over the riddle today.
How to live long: Do you really want to live long… then let us tell you – come on, it’s not that tough. Walk on. We have found the formula for long life. For that, just walk on..and keep walking on.
People all over the world keep trying different ways to live long, but it is difficult to tell how many people get success or have got it. Doctors have also tried in this direction and similarly scientists all over the world have also made longevity the center of their research.
Now the good news has come. Now scientists have finally found its formula. Health-scientists took the help of a research and its data to make the best prediction of the duration of your life and after analyzing them, they came to a surprising conclusion.
A work which is very easy.. a work which can be done by everyone.. a work which does not cost money at all – this is the work which if you can do then your work is done. That means your life’s work is confirmed i.e. you will live a long life.
Alex Hutchinson is a national award winning journalist who is also the author of a column called ‘Sweat Science’ and he searches for the latest research on outdoor sports and makes it the subject of his articles. The credit for this important life saving research goes to him. If we were going to give Nobel Prize, then this year we would have liked to give one award to Alex Hutchinson.
Generally we have two main options to estimate our longevity. One of these is the regular tests prescribed and conducted by the doctor for you and their results. These are the results which show the increase or decrease in your blood pressure, cholesterol level, weight, etc. In this way also your life can be estimated and your age too. But what can you do to increase your lifespan except taking care of your health or implementing health rules in your life. It is a very good thing if you can do this.
The second method is more simple and easy too. The work that medical tests do and give information about your internal problems or test and analyze your internal and external health, you can do the same work too. You can do this work in two ways i.e. you can increase your age i.e. you can prolong your life by your own efforts.
You can make two types of efforts towards your long life or longevity. The first is that everyone does it but you don’t. Now you should also do it but you will have to do it better than others. Then your chances of longevity will be more than others. That is, adopt and follow the rules of health more than others.
The second effort you can make in this direction is to take stock of your health fluctuations and try to understand the direction of your life by assessing them. In this way, in a few years you will know which are your habits that are deteriorating your health and which are your efforts that are improving your health.
Suppose both the tasks seem difficult to you, then do this third task. This is easy too and there is no assessment or test to be done in this. Neither do you have to keep any account nor do any exercise. You just have to do one thing. And yes, then keep doing the same thing.
But first let’s talk about the first option, which is probably a good option. The goal of self-measurement is to check which factors actually predict your longevity. These can also include those factors which if changed in time can make you live longer and these can also include those factors which you can adopt continuously in your life and make you live longer.
Now we will talk about the third and last option which is for everyone and is the easiest. You just have to bring a habit into your life and then continue it throughout your life. If this habit stays with you, then you will walk more. Start walking to walk more. Remember, if you walk, you will walk more. This is the formula for which you are reading this article.
If you walk, you will live. If you walk more, you will live more and the more you walk, the more you will live. This means that by doing just one thing continuously, you can get the blessing of health. The blessing of health means long life. Walk and keep walking. If you walk, you will walk!
Health scientists did a research and got an analytical conclusion in this direction. They knew that it is certain that better data gives better predictions. For their study, they focused on 3,600 people between the ages of 50 and 80.
They monitored people continuously to see who died and who lived during the original time period. Their physical activities were recorded continuously, and they also observed how many of them were taking the traditional risks that were known to invite death, i.e., what health-killing activities they were doing in their daily lives. For this, 14 such good and bad factors, i.e., their 14 such good and bad habits, were recorded.
For a complete assessment, basic demographic information (age, sex, body mass index, race or ethnicity, educational level), lifestyle habits (alcohol consumption, smoking), pre-existing medical conditions (diabetes, heart disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, cancer, mobility problems) etc. of these people were used as the basis for assessment before and during the research.
In the end, the conclusion of this research by health scientists was that people who walked more lived longer or in other words, those who walked more were moving towards a longer life, and those who walked less or lived less, died sooner and those who did not walk died even earlier. This means that if you do not walk towards life, you will walk towards death. That means you will have to walk!
To understand this, you will have to take some time to understand how much you walk and how fast you walk. This is more important for knowing your future life, because it predicts how many years you have left. Well, more or less you have to decide how much you walk, for how long and how fast you walk.
In fact, technology has known and accepted this fact before you. For this, in the last decade, the products of wearable fitness trackers have also increased and their promotion has also increased. Accelerometers worn on the wrist like Apple Watches, Fitbits and Whoop Band are tracking the most powerful predictor of your future health.
The results show that tracking your total walking throughout the day instead of formal exercise can be a powerful health check.
Exercise is good but not for everyone, everyone has different health conditions according to which they have to do different types of exercises and in different ways. When the condition changes, the exercise also changes. There are different types of exercises according to age. You cannot choose these different types of exercises yourself. You need a doctor for everything. And the need is not one day but daily and for the whole life.
Now the most important question is how much and what kind of activity do we need to live longer. How should we achieve this goal? Remember, doctors also say to exercise. And if you are not able to exercise due to busyness or any other reason, then doctors advise you to walk. Walking is the simplest advice and also the most useful.
A map is not a road, but a map gives you direction and you make a path by walking in that direction. So the bottom line is that it would be better to leave aside many small things and focus on one big thing that really works. In fact, this in itself can prove to be a meaningful goal for all of us.
We have to decide whether we really want to live longer? If the answer is yes, then open the door, step out and start walking. Remember, now you are moving towards a long life.
