Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort study in U.S. women

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Objective: To evaluate the impact of combinations of lifestyle factors on mortality in middle aged women.
Design Prospective: cohort study.

Setting: Nurses’ health study, United States.

Participants: 77,782 women aged thirty-four to fifty-nine years and free from cardiovascular disease and cancer in 1980

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Healthy lifestyle turns off genes that cause cancer

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It's no secret that a healthy lifestyle can slow the progression of cancer, but how this happens has been a mystery. Now new evidence suggests an answer: dieting and exercise may turn crucial genes on and off.

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Healthy Buddies: good lesson to teach lifestyle to kids

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According to the study, a school-based healthy lifestyle program appears to improve the attitudes elementary school children have toward healthy foods and physical activity.

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It's not too late to change -- lowering cardiac risk later in life

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Can adopting a healthier lifestyle later in life help -- or is it too late? In a study published in the July 2007 issue of the American Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston found that people 45 to 64 years of age who added healthy lifestyle behaviors could substantially reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease and reduce their death rate.

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