Live to be One Hundred - Calculator

There are a lot of calculators that you can take on line. I just did one that indicated I would live to be 91.

These are things the caculator revealed I might do to live longer. This looks like a good checklist for New Years resolutions for 2009

Personal
+ 0.5 You noted that you don't manage your stress as well as you could. Do a better job and you could add half a year to your life expectancy
+ 0.5 You need to get more sleep. If you could get closer to 6-8 hours of sleep a night, you could add half a year to your life
+ 0.25 People who are optimistic about their aging fare much better. Turn your attitude around about your aging and you could add a quarter of a year to your life
+ 0.25 Brain strengthening activities can help you delay or escape memory loss and perhaps Alzheimer's disease. While you are already doing a bunch, increasing your frequency of brain-challenging activities to twice a week could add a quarter of a year to your life.
Lifestyle
+ 1.0 Minimizing or cutting out your caffeinated coffee consumption completely could provide you with about a year more in life expectacy
+ 0.5 Ultraviolet rays present in sunlight and tanning beds greatly increase your risk of skin cancer, including melanoma. They also increase wrinkles. Minimizing your sun exposure could add half a year to your life expectancy
Nutrition
+ 0.5 Osteoporosis (brittle bones) is a terrible disease that becomes more common with older age. Among the important ways to prevent osteoporosis, it is important to have adequate amounts of calcium in your diet. Add more dairy products to your diet or take 1500 mg of calcium a day. Doing so could add a half a year to your life expectancy.
+ 1.0 Iron is likely an age-accelerator and increases risk for age-related diseases. Stopping your iron supplement could add a year to your life expectancy
+ 0.5 Being more active in your leisure time, other than exercising, could add half a year to your life expectancy
Medical
+ 0.75 Examining yourself for cancer could add three-quarters of a year to your life expectancy
+ 1.0 Decreasing your bad cholesterol (called LDL cholesterol) to a normal or even lower level could increase your life expectancy by a year