A healthy lifestyle may offset the effects of life-shortening genes by more than 60%, suggests an analysis of the findings from several large long term studies, published online in the journal BMJ ...

Even if your genetics put you at greater risk for early death, a healthy lifestyle could help you significantly combat it, ...

Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, or Yanping Li, MD, PhD, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 ...

New research suggests that healthy lifestyle choices can significantly reduce the risk of early death, even for people with a genetic predisposition to it. The study, involving over 350,000 ...

A healthy lifestyle may be able to cancel out roughly 60% of the impact of “life-shortening” genes, ... [+] potentially adding another five years to your life, according to a recent study.

New research details healthy lifestyle factors that may extend your life. People with a genetic risk of early death can extend their life by up to 5.5 years. Doctors say lifestyle factors can make ...

When research tells us that our grandparents' diets can affect our health decades later, it can be hard to shake the feeling that genetics spells out the trajectory of our wellbeing. But how much of ...

Even before the advent of modern medical treatments, a healthy lifestyle was known to improve quality of life and to prolong life expectancy. The contribution of a healthy lifestyle could soon be ...

Objectives Adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviours has shown promising effectiveness in reducing the high morbidity burden of cancer survivors. Health professionals (HPs) are well suited to provide ...

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