If you are a middle-aged man and you want to live a long time, all you need is a good lifestyle – some good genes would also help. Make sure you don’t become obese, remember to exercise regularly, keep your blood pressure down, avoid the boozy lifestyle and keep away from foods high in refined sugars, say experts from the Pacific Health Research Institute, Hawaii, USA. You can read about this new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). If you look after yourself in this way your chances of reaching 85, and being healthy at that age, are five times greater than for men who stray off the beaten track. The researchers looked at data on 5,820 Japanese/American males – they had been monitored for four decades. The men were initially monitored in 1965 – at that time they had an average age of 54 and were all healthy. They were followed up in 2005. The scientists found that the following, either in isolation, or in combination, significantly influenced whether the men lived a long life, and also whether their extra years were healthy ones: — obesity — alcohol consumption (3+ […]