Anti-aging quiz: Secrets to a longer, healthier life

Anti-aging remedies sound easy: Take a pill and live forever. It's true that living a long and healthy life can be easy, but it doesn't involve any secret anti-aging pills. It just takes simple changes to your daily routine to make you feel better and reduce your risk of disease. The following questions test your knowledge about how to live a long and healthy life. As you answer these questions, consider how the lifestyle choices you make now may affect your health as you get older

 

1. As long as your body is physically healthy, you'll lead a long and healthy life.
a) True
b) False

2. Losing weight without even trying is a good thing.
a) True
b) False

3. If you're over age 65 — and especially if you're over age 75 — you should refrain from exercising to preserve your strength.
a) True
b) False

4. No matter how much you exercise and how healthy your diet, whether you end up sickly or healthy in your later years is largely determined by your genes.
a) True
b) False

5. Now that you're a senior citizen, you don't need as much sleep as when you were a young adult.
a) True
b) False

6. By the time you reach retirement age, it's too late to erase the effects of a lifetime of bad health habits.
a) True
b) False

7.Volunteering in your community is just as good for you as it is for the people you're helping.
a) True
b) False

8. Herbal products advertised as anti-aging serums are a good bet for a longer life.
a) True
b) False

9. Napping during the day is a sure sign of declining health and should be avoided.
a) True
b) False

10. If you never had any serious illnesses as a young adult, you probably don't need to worry about any serious health problems in old age.
a) True
b) False

 

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