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A healthy lifestyle does not significantly increase the risk of disability - defined as difficulty or dependency in the performance of essential daily activities. And 'what emerges from a study of a group of people 65 years of age.

The study was conducted in 3 cities, Dijon, Bordeaux and Montpellier, of persons 65 years of age. The participants were free of disability at the beginning of the study, which lasted 12 years. At the head of the study: Alexis Elbaz, MD, PhD, of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale in Villejuif, France.

The lack of practice of physical activity, the non-consumption of fruits and vegetables at least once a day, smoking, were considered unhealthy behaviors.

Physically inactive, with an unhealthy diet, low in fruits and vegetables, currently smokers or who had been in the last 15 years have shown more likely to develop disability as opposed to those who had not had any of the behaviors considered unhealthy .

Previous research has shown links between unhealthy behaviors and the risk of negative consequences such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, stroke, sudden cardiac death ... In this study we analyzed the effects that instead unhealthy habits may have on the risk of disability.
 

The researchers used three scales to measure the level of disability - mobility, instrumental activities of daily living, and basic activities of daily life - and built a hierarchical indicator of disability which has combined the three. In other words, a participant may be completely independent: without assistance in all 3 areas or need help in one, two, or three areas.


Physical inactivity was associated with a 72% increase in the risk of disability. An unhealthy diet, which provides, among other fruits and vegetables less than once a day, was associated with a 24% increase in the risk of developing disability, the smoke to increase of 26%.

The risk of disability increases significantly with the growth of unhealthy behaviors, and participants with three unhealthy behaviors had a 2.53 times higher risk of developing disability than those with no unhealthy behavior. 



Source: Worldhealth 

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