CLEAN LIVING | Men who avoid bad habits like smoking and keep from developing risk factors such as high blood sugar can live to a ripe old age, according to a study that followed more than 5,800 Japanese-American middle-aged men in Hawaii beginning in 1965. Researchers studied the men, whose average age was 54, for up to 40 years. The chance of survival to age 85 is as high as 69 percent in men with no risk factors at middle age and as low as 22 percent in men with six or more risk factors. The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.|Los Angeles Times
MILE HIGH IN THE MIDDLE | Denver ranks 51 out of 100 among the healthiest cities for women in Self magazine’s annual rankings. Seems Denver’s positives are that the obesity rate is among the 10 lowest, and heart-disease rates are more than 40 percent lower than average, but the suicide rate is 35 percent higher than average, asthma rates are among the 10 highest, and more than 20 percent more rapes are reported than in the average city. The top five healthiest places are Honolulu; Portland, Maine; Nassau-Suffolk counties, N.Y.; Orange County, Calif.; and Burlington, Vt. Check out other locales at selfmag.com.
