"Newswise — Four healthy lifestyle factors—never smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly and following a healthy diet—together appear to be associated with as much as an 80 percent reduction in the risk of developing the most common and deadly chronic diseases, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."

According to information in this report Cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes which account for the majority of deaths are mostly preventable. 

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assessed 25,513 German adults age 35-65.  Participants completed an assessment of their body weight and height, a personal interview that included questions about diseases, a questionnaire on sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics and a food frequency questionnaire.

 

Their responses were assessed for adherence to 4 lifestyle factors:  never smoking, having a body mass index lower than 30, exercising for at least 3.5 hours per week and following healthy eating guidelines. 

 

What they found was that individuals with more healthy lifestyle factors were less likely to develop chronic diseases.  Participants who had all 4 factors at the beginning of the study had a 78 percent lower risk of developing these chronic diseases.  Individually it was a 93% reduced risk of diabetes, 81% reduced risk of heart attack, 50% reduced risk of stroke and 36% reduced risk of cancer.

 

The largest reduction in risk was associated with having a BMI lower than 30 which means you have a healthy bodyweight.  Two major players to determining that bodyweight is consistent exercise and good healthy eating guidelines and healthy eating plans.

 

So you can still reverse the risk factors you have stacked against you right now in a considerable way by taking part in consistent exercise and following healthy eating guidelines and proper healthy eating plans. 

 

Yours in health,

 

Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS
America’s Trusted Weight Loss Expert

 

 

<p> </p> <p><img hspace="10" align="left" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-890" title="women-lifting-sm" alt="women-lifting-sm" src="http://askjaysonhunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/women-lifting-sm.jpg" />"Newswise — Four healthy lifestyle factors—never smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly and following a healthy diet—together appear to be associated with as much as an 80 percent reduction in the risk of developing the most common and deadly chronic diseases, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of <i>Archives of Internal Medicine</i>, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."</p> <p><span id="more-889"></span></p> <p>According to information in this report Cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes which account for the majority of deaths are mostly preventable.  </p> <p> </p> <p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assessed 25,513 German adults age 35-65.  Participants completed an assessment of their body weight and height, a personal interview that included questions about diseases, a questionnaire on sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics and a food frequency questionnaire. </p> <p> </p> <p>Their responses were assessed for adherence to 4 lifestyle factors:  never smoking, having a body mass index lower than 30, exercising for at least 3.5 hours per week and following healthy eating guidelines.  </p> <p> </p> <p>What they found was that individuals with more healthy lifestyle factors were less likely to develop chronic diseases.  Participants who had all 4 factors at the beginning of the study had a 78 percent lower risk of developing these chronic diseases.  Individually it was a 93% reduced risk of diabetes, 81% reduced risk of heart attack, 50% reduced risk of stroke and 36% reduced risk of cancer. </p> <p> </p> <p>The largest reduction in risk was associated with having a BMI lower than 30 which means you have a healthy bodyweight.  Two major players to determining that bodyweight is consistent exercise and good healthy eating guidelines and healthy eating plans. </p> <p> </p> <p>So you can still reverse the risk factors you have stacked against you right now in a considerable way by taking part in consistent exercise and following healthy eating guidelines and proper healthy eating plans.  </p> <p> </p> <p>Yours in health,</p> <p> </p> <p>Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS<br /> America’s Trusted Weight Loss Expert</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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