Healthy Elderly Lifestyle Can Let You Live To 100

New York (dbTechno) - A new study has shown that elderly people who life a healthy lifestyle can live to be 100-years-old, even if they have developed heart disease or diabetes. The key to a long elderly life is simply being healthy.

Boston University researchers did phone interviews and health assessments on more than 500 women and 200 men who had all reached around the age of 100.

The study found that two-thirds of them managed to avoid ailments related to getting old such as heart disease, diabetes etc.

The other one-third though all had a disease before the age of 85, but managed to live on and very happily.

Researchers stated that people can live over the age of 85 with ailments such as heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes as long as it is taken care of.

A second study with men over the age of 70 found that those who avoided smoking, inactivity, diabetes, and obesity, as well as high blood sugar, improved their chances of living into their 90s greatly.

Dr. William Hall of the University of Rochester stated “It has been generally assumed that living to 100 years of age was limited to those who had not developed chronic illness.” This may not be the case at all though.