Want to live longer? Here are 6 tips that will help you live healthy and happy for long

Many researchers have indicated that several positive practices, including exercise, eating well, some body movements, are enough to keep the mind, muscles, heart, and body fit.

We all want to live long and enjoy life with our friends and family. Some want to live long to travel worldwide and appreciate different cuisines worldwide. But for that, we need to focus in our present and live a healthy lifestyle. A team of Australian researchers has developed an exciting aspect to help live a healthy and long life. 
 

Professor Ruth Hubbard of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland and his team studied Marvel films from Iron Man (2008) to Black Widow (2021). The team studied five Marvel superhero characters, The Hulk, Black Widow, Black Panther, Iron Man, and Spider-Man and suggested some health tips based on the behaviour and habits of the superheroes. That will help us live longer and stay younger.
 

Socialize: It is said that people live longer and healthier when they are around positive people. Many studies have also suggested that people with strong social connections are happier. Loneliness and social solitariness negatively affect health as you get old. 
 

Regular exercise: Exercise, Yoga, playing some sports or some movement on the body is sufficient to keep muscles, heart, mind and body fit. Walking is also good, helps in metabolizing glucose, it also activates the whole body, making our bodywork faster and fluently.
 

Weight: Focus on weight to remain physically healthy. Check out diet, do cardio or do muscle toning exercise to increase your stamina and energy levels.

Avoid alcohol and cigarettes: Smoking is associated with lung disease, cancers, and cardiovascular disease. And excessive alcohol use can lead to an increased risk of health problems. SO AVOID 
 

Keep working: An active mind helps control old age-related mental illnesses like dementia. A sharp mind or working mind will definitely increase your cognitive capacity will protect you from hallucinations or dementia.
 

Healthy diet: Good food and people diet will make your heart happy and healthy. Change in diet according to your age will also help control blood pressure, sugar level, and cholesterol

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Advice From a 104-Year-Old Doctor

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, from Japan, turned 104 recently. One of the world's longest-serving physicians and educators, Hinohara's magic touch is legendary. Since 1941, he has been healing patients  and teaching. He has published around many books since his 75th birthday, including "Living Long, Living Good", which sold more than 1.2 million copies.

As the founder of the New Elderly Movement, Dr.Hinohara encourages others to live a long and happy life - a quest in which no role model is better than the doctor himself. Nearly 10 years ago, he was interviewed, and gave his advice for a long and healthy life. Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara's main points for a long and happy life are: 

1. All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common: None are overweight.

For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

2. Always plan ahead.

My schedule book is already full until next year, with lectures and my usual hospital work.

3. There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.

The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese people were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100...

4. Share what you know.

I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.

5. When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure.

Contrary to popular belief, doctors can't cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.

6. To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff.

I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.

7. My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler."

My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.

8. Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it.

If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: we all want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.

9. Don't be crazy about amassing material things.

Remember: you don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.

10. Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors.

We designed St. Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.

11. Science alone can't cure or help people.

Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.

12. Life is filled with incidents.

On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.

13. Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do.

My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at Duke University in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.

14. It's wonderful to live long

Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours a day, seven days a week, and love every minute of it.

15. Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot

We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.

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Positive psychology, good diet essential for life after cancer

Positive psychology and good diet are crucial for cancer survivors to lead a healthy life post cancer, according to doctors and dieticians.

Suman Gupta, a 32-year-old mother of two, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. She went through several chemotherapy sessions and a surgery and is now a happy mother.

"Positive lookout on life helped me fight cancer. It is a curable disease so nothing to feel scared about," Gupta told IANS.

Explaining the psychological aspect of the disease, Puneet Dwevedi, head of department, Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences, Fortis Memorial Research Institute said: "Cancer affects not only the patient but also the family and care givers. In such cases, positive psychology goes a long way in helping people deal with the situation. The mental health professional helps change their denial to acceptance and encourages a positive attitude."

At an event for cancer survivors held here, dieticians also highlighted on the nutritional strategies that can be used to manage the side effects of radiation and chemotherapy.

"Nutrition helps counter weight loss, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, oral mucositis, taste alterations and constipation," said Tina Sapra, a registered dietician with the American Dietetic Association.
Of the other cancer survivors, yoga expert Ramneek Wig, who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 25, highlighted that yoga could be important for developing mental health following cancer.

"I started practicing yoga and 'pranayama' to build physical fitness and mental strength. Yoga can be an important supportive therapy in the battle against cancer," Wig said.

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