Articles about Longevity

Do You Want to Live Forever? Stress and Longevity

Do you want to live forever? Maybe this isn't possible, but you probably do want to live your life with grace, with health and happiness. Most people are aware that daily life can be stressful and that this stress can affect your health or, at least, your quality of life. Everyone has different s ... [read more]

Achieve Longevity with Health Intact

Completely healthy does not only mean being the perfect weight, no it means much more than that. There are a lot of people out there who exercise nearly every day, weigh what they are suppose to and look just great. But does that mean,that they are completely healthy? No, not neccessarily. So ... [read more]

Health and Longevity: Changing My Mind the Subliminal Way

Attitudes and beliefs have long been suspected of impacting life in meaningful ways. However, only in the past decade or so has so-called hard science turned to this page. Today there is little argument about the influence of attitude and belief on health, wellness, longevity, and the general qualit ... [read more]

Ayurveda, India's Science of Life, Health and Longevity

Ayurveda is India's ancient science life, health, and longevity. It is thought of by many scholars to be the oldest form of health care in the world. It originated in India over 5000 years ago, and was taught for thousands of years in an oral tradition from accomplished masters to their disciples. T ... [read more]

Happiness Increases Longevity...Where Do We Find This Gift of Life?

According to U.S. research, you can add seven and a half years to your life just by being happy! Backing this claim up is Laurie Hayes, Life Strategy Coach from Ontario, Canada who also states that genuine happiness is the key ingredient being sought after by most people who come to her. Ms. H ... [read more]

Exercise Promotes Longevity

Medical researchers at Harvard and Standford Universities who studied the habits and health of 17,000 middle-aged and older men, reported the first scientific evidence that even modest exercise helps prolong life. Dr. Ralph S. Paffenberger, the visiting professor of epidemology at the Harvard School ... [read more]

How To Find Your Way To Healthy Longevity

As the old saying goes, are you "a picture of health"? You may have a problem answering this question, but it's important to know just where you stand on this issue. I guess we all would like to be the healthiest person we can be but it's not always possible. It seems like we were never worried as m ... [read more]

Longevity - Can Fat Cells Dictate How Long a Human Survives?

According to the September Issue of Popular Mechanics, a report written by Jim Wilson explains how human beings may some day have the capability to survive to be 180 (one hundred eighty) years old! Based on research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -( MIT ) - and Professor Leonard P ... [read more]

Healthy Longevity Is Your Greatest Wealth

Like the gathering of dark angry storm clouds before a violent summer storm,and the falling of ice pellets and sudden gusts of wind causes those who live in tornado alley to turn their anxious eyes towards the sky,so too do worried health authorites scan the world's news to learn if the much talked ... [read more]

Optimism, Health & Longevity

The health press are hot on the trail of positivity of late, as mounting evidence shows that those who live with their glass half full are living longer. This could be for a variety of reasons, two of the more obvious ones being: 1. that negativity is stressful and gets us down physically as w ... [read more]

Longevity and The Mediterranean Diet

Six Reasons Why the Mediterranean Diet Contributes to a Longer, Healthier Life Over the course of many generations, observers have been able to discern that the people who populate the region around the Mediterranean Sea live longer lives than do men and women in some other parts of the world. Hi ... [read more]

Engineered Yeast Set A Record In Longevity - What Are The Implications For Humans?

Restrict nutrient access, remove a couple of genes and one lives 5-fold longer than normal. This is not science fiction, this is the cutting edge science. But, of course, I am not talking about humans here. The research was done on a unicellular organism, yeast. In the paper published this month in ... [read more]