Act Now, Live Longer - Part 5

If you're interested in living as long and healthy as you can there is a new study out that suggests easy things you can do to postpone your own death.


The study is from the national commission on prevention priorities and it found that if we all adopted five simple preventive health care practices, more than 100-thousand lives would be saved per year.

#5 - colonoscopy

According to a recent study .. 14-thousand lives would be saved each year .. if 90 percent of adults age 50 and up .. had a regular colonoscopy.

Today .. fewer than 50 percent do.
Act Now, Live Longer - Part 5

 
     
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