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The Clark Howard Podcast

2.21.20 How to live longer and healthier; Clark Stinks

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Harvard University researchers began a health study in 1980. Time Magazines reports subject lifestyle factors were tracked for 40 years. Healthy lifestyle factors include no smoking, no excessive alcohol, regular exercise, healthy weight and a low-fat, plant-based diet. Findings indicate those who practiced 4 out of these 5 healthy lifestyle choices enjoyed more disease-free years - After age 50, 10 more years for women, 8 more for men. Women's lifespans increased by 14 years, men's by 12. So both quality and quantity of life are enhanced with healthy lifestyles. Diabetes, heart disease and cancer were the areas of risk examined. CA HMO Kaiser Permanente has been testing Samsung heart monitoring watches. Among the 4,000 distributed so far, KP finds that after a year of monitoring, the readmission rate for program members is much improved over non users. Those without monitors were 5 to 8 times more likely to have a recurrence of heart trouble. This monitoring program is set to expand. Christa reads listener posts about how Clark has missed the mark in his advice this week. If you have a "Clark Stinks" to share you can leave it here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways

0:10.9

to save more and spend less and don't wait whenever rip you off.

0:16.6

Park.com is our main website, cartdeles.com, is where we tell you about bargains about deals

0:24.0

night and day.

0:26.6

So coming up later, we have Clark Stinks.

0:31.2

That's where you post at cart.com slash cart stinks where you feel that, well, I've not

0:36.9

done my job well with bad information, bad advice or just bad guidance.

0:44.1

And so if you check out cart.com slash cart stinks, you get to see what others have said

0:49.7

and you can comment on it.

0:51.7

And coming up later, you get to hear our on era version of Clark Stinks.

0:59.2

So what kind of stick to it, if this?

1:05.1

People researchers at Harvard University started to study in 1980, 40 years ago of the health

1:20.6

of men and women and they track people based on how healthy a life they were living.

1:31.4

And I read a report on this in Time magazine that they track people based on how much they

1:41.6

exercised, what kind of weight they had, whether they were smokers, how much they drank,

1:49.4

and whether they ate a diet, what's referred to as high in plants, low in fats.

1:57.1

And what they found over this study forever is that people who lived four of these five,

2:09.2

not necessarily nobody's perfect, right?

2:11.9

So you were 80% of the way there with these five characteristics, which I'll tell you

2:16.1

again, how you exercising, getting your weight under control, not smoking and not drinking

2:25.4

a whole lot, they define a lot of drinking for women's drinking more than a drink a

2:32.0

day for a guy more than two drinks a day.

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