I was updating a presentation with this newer data and it reminded me of this older thread, as I thought it applied to the topic..
The results of this study are not only very sad, they did not improve over the 30 years of the study.
Healthy Lifestyles Reduce the Incidence of Chronic Diseases and Dementia: Evidence from the Caerphilly Cohort Study. PLoS ONE 8(12): e81877. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081877 (2013)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad ... ne.0081877The Caerphilly Cohort Study
- 2,235 men aged 45–59 years followed for 30 years
- Tracked 5 Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors
1) Smoking: not smoking, including ex-smokers;
2) BMI: body mass index 18 to under 25 Kg/m2;
3) Diet: 3 or more portions of fruit &/or veggies/day was accepted as ‘healthy’, together with < 30% of calories from fat;
4) Physical activity: walking 2 or more miles to work each day, or cycling ten or more miles to work each day,
5) Alcohol: three or fewer units per day
- Those following all 5 slashed the risk of developing diabetes by 70%, heart attack, stroke and dementia by 60% & cancer by 40%
- Only 1% followed all five of the behaviors
- Only 5% followed at least 4
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At baseline..... only fifteen men consumed five or more portions of fruit and/or vegetables daily, so the definition of this behaviour was reduced to three or more portions per day, and 18% of men satisfied this criterion. - Only 429 (19%) followed three behaviors, 111 (5%) followed four or five behaviours and only two (0.1%) followed all five behaviours
- These numbers didn't change over 30 years
In Health
Jeff