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People who adopt four healthy habits seem to live on average 14 years longer than those who adopt none of them, a new study indicates.

The habits are not smok­ing, exercising, drinking alcohol in moderation and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables daily. KayTee Khaw and col­leagues from the Un­ivers­ity of Cam­bridge and the Medical Research Council in the U.K. studied records of 20,000 older British adults who had filled out health questionnaires between 1993 and 1997.

After factoring in age, the researchers found that over an average of 11 years, people who undertook none of the four health habits were four times more likely to have died than those who adopted all four. People in this less healthy group had on average the same risk of dying as people 14 years older in the second group, the researchers said.

The participants were aged 45 to 79 when they filled out the questionnaires. Deaths among the participants were recorded until 2006.

The study formed part of the European Pro­spective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, conducted across ten European countries, billed as the largest study of diet and health ever undertaken.

The findings need to be confirmed in other populations, but the results “strongly suggest that these four achievable lifestyle changes could have a marked improvement on the health of middleaged and older people,” the researchers said in an announcement of the findings. The research appeared online Jan. 8 in the research journal PLoS Biology.

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