(NaturalNews) Four bad habits can shorten your life by 12 years according to a new study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The four bad habits are smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and a poor diet.

In the study, researchers examined 4886 British adults who were age 18 or older in 1984 and 1985. The risky health habits were: smoking tobacco; downing more than three alcoholic drinks per day for men and more than two daily for women; getting less than two hours of physical activity per week; and eating fruits and vegetables fewer than three times daily. The researchers then assigned a health score for each person based on bad health habits. A score of zero was assigned to those who had none of the four bad habits and it increased up to a score of four for those who had all four.

Death certificates were checked for the next 20 years and the researchers found that the higher the score, the shorter the average lifespan was likely to be. The most common causes of death included heart disease and cancer, both related to unhealthy lifestyles.

 

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