By the well-known I mean the usual culprits: smoking, excessive sunbathing, drinking alcohol, doing hard drugs for years (to name the main ones).
Is there something more inconspicuous that surprised you bcs you didn’t think it will make your life harder with age?
Nesnosnareddit.comWhich habit aged you faster/worse excluding the well-known bad habits?
- Lifestyle. This may be the big one. Several clues are starting to emerge that point to parallels between the lifestyles of super agers. Healthy-aging researchers have identified four common habits.
A physically and intellectually active lifestyle.
The willingness or ability to constantly challenge oneself.
An active social life and a wide social... See more
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and... See more