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5 Ways to Live Longer and Avoid Cancer

If you want to live a long and healthy life then these five tips are essential. They will not only help you live longer, they will help you live a better quality of life. Check them out.

5 -Quit Smoking

This should be a given by now. If you are still smoking then you should just close this window because whatever else you do for your health is practically a waste of time. If you don’t stop smoking, tips one to four are useless.

There are all kinds of excuses for smoking and not quitting - stress, lazy, habit, too hard… whatever. I have a friend who is 22 and just been through six months of chemotherapy. If you think quitting is hard go visit the people in the cancer ward at your local hospital who now wish they quit. Dying of smoking related illnesses is a very painful way to go.

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4 - Forget about stressing

We all know the mind and the body have a strong connection but the effect that stress has on your body is almost visible. When you get stressed all sorts of things happen inside you. You can get constipated, sleep less, headaches - all sorts of physical manifestions.

What you need to remember is that stress is all in your mind and you can control your mind. Positive thinking and mental toughness really go a long way when you decide that you need to relax.

A great meditation technique that will help you kill stress is to simply watch your stressed thoughts arise. Don’t try to get rid of them or squash them. Don’t label them as good or bad. Just watch them. When you do this you will find they have less power and will dissolve much faster.

3 - Eat fruit as a whole meal

Humans were meant to eat fruit. The huge array of fruits available to us contain all the vitamins and minerals that we need not only to detox and clean our system, but to survive. We could eat nothing but fruit and be healthy, I am sure of this.

If you want to live longer try making your breakfast and morning tea consist solely of fruits. You will find you have better energy and a much healthier immune system. When I eat like this I manage to avoid the colds and flus going around. Many of the world’s oldest people have said that they rarely caught colds so this must have something to it.

2 - Eat more fiber

If your poo isn’t right then your life expectancy won’t be either. What you do in the toilet is a great indication of how healthy you are.

Other than breast cancer (women) and prostate cancer (men) it is bowel cancer that kills the most people. One of the most simple ways to avoid this cancer is to eat more fiber and keep your digestion healthy.

The best way to do this is to eat lots of vegetables and fruits, drink lots of water, eat some whole grain cereals and avoid highly processed foods like chips, pizza and burgers. Your poo should be comfortable to push out, long and it should make a nice “swoosh” sound as it hits the water. Healthy poo is healthy bowel.

1 - Sleep right

Sleep is the time when the mind processes the day’s activities and the body deals with the toxins and other nasty things going on in your body. Your muscle tissue repairs best at this time.

If you want to live longer you should get at more than five hours and less than nine hours of sleep a night. Yep, that’s right. Studies have shown that oversleeping can be just as harmful for your health as undersleeping. Find a time that works for you and stick to it everyday - even on weekends.

+ 1 more tip - reduce / quit alcohol
Alcohol has negative effects on the body and it will make you fat. It slows down your metabolism and can lead to other bad lifestyle habits. If you are a regular drinker then you should take heed of this warning - it isn’t good for you.

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