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New Study Reveals How You Could Add 10 Years To Your Life
A new study found that making specific, sustained diet changes could add more than a decade to an American's life. Researchers found that a sustained change from a "typical Western diet" to an "optimal diet" beginning at age 20 would increase the life expectancy for a woman in the United States by more than 10 years, and by 13 years for men in the US, according to the report published in PLOS Medicine on Tuesday, Feb. 8. The report said the study found that the largest gains in life expectancy would be made by eating more legumes, whole grains and nuts and by eating less red meat and …
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Covid-
19: US Sees Biggest Drop In Life Expectancy Since World War II; Here Are CDC Numbers
The life expectancy for the average Americans just got significantly shorter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) February "Rapid Release" statistics, found that the average life expectancy of an American, from birth, was 78.8 years in 2019. Now, it’s 77.8. The average American is expected to live one year less than what was anticipated last year. The change was undoubtedly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 490,000 U.S. residents. Not everyone will have the same fate, however. Life expectancy changes dramatically by gender and race, a…
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Covid-
19: See How Many Years Americans Killed By Virus Would Have Lived Otherwise, Study Shows
The average American who has succumbed to COVID-19 could have kept on living for another 13 years, according to a new Harvard University study. The assumption that COVID-19 is only killing elderly people near a natural death is not supported by research, said study author Stephen J. Elledge, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School. The study looks at the 194,000 COVID-19 related deaths in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic to October. By looking at actuarial data on life expectancy and demographics, researchers said that more than 2.5 million person-years of life have been…