Bad habits can age you by 12 Years
A British study following nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years, shows how a combination of smoking, drinking, poor diet and inactivity increases the risk of early death.
Alcohol is one of four risky behaviours included in the study, and is regarded as risky when consuming more than three alcoholic drinks per day for men and more than two for women. Other risky behaviours are smoking tobacco, getting less than two hours of physical activity per week and eating fruits and vegetables fewer than three times daily.
The combination of these four bad habits increased the risk of death and made people who engaged in them seem 12 years older than people in the healthiest group, said lead researcher Elisabeth Kvaavik of the University of Oslo.
314 people studied had all four unhealthy behaviours. Among them, 91 died during the study, or 29 percent. Among the 387 healthiest people with none of the four habits, only 32 died, or about 8 percent.