Act Now, Live Longer - Part 3

If you're interested in living as long and healthy as you can there is a new study out that suggests easy things you can do to postpone your own death.


The study is from the national commission on prevention priorities and it found that if we all adopted five simple preventive health care practices, more than 100-thousand lives would be saved per year.

#1 - daily aspirin.

Even though it's cheap and accessible, fewer than half of american adults take it preventively.

The study suggests 45-thousand additional lives would be saved every year if we increased to 90 percent the portion of adults who take an aspirin daily to prevent heart disease.

#3 - mammogram
A recent study by the national commission on prevention priorities says nearly 4-thousand additional lives would be saved .. if 90 percent of women 40 and up, had a mammogram in the past 2 years.
Today .. just 67 percent have been screened.
Act Now, Live Longer - Part 3

 
     
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