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Life Beyond 100: What Can You Do To Increase Your Longevity?

Life Beyond 100: What Can You Do To Increase Your Longevity? by Reizel Sales. Photograph of an older woman playing ball with a young child by Clement Falize
Photograph by Clement Falize

5 Lifestyle choices that can help you live longer, but more importantly, improve the quality of your experience…and isn’t that what life is really about?

Just a couple of decades ago, living beyond 100 would have seemed something of a long shot. While the average life expectancy in the US is still just under 80 years old, thanks to medical advances and research into the lives of retirees, it is now more likely than ever before that you’ll live

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