长寿的方法

长寿的方法

Back in the 13th century, English philosopher and scientist Roger Bacon proposed that aging was caused by the waning of vital spirit, or "innate moisture." To increase one’s longevity, he advised, old men should spend time in the company of young women to take in their sweet, moist breath. Well alrighty then! To our contemporary sentiments, this comes off as completely creepy, but it goes to show that when it comes to the quest for immortality, we’ve been grasping at straws for a long time.

早在13世纪，英国哲学家和科学家罗杰·培根就提出，衰老是由活力的减弱或“天生的水分”造成的。他建议，为了延长寿命，老男人应该花时间和年轻女人在一起，享受她们甜美、湿润的气息。好很好!对我们当代的人来说，这听起来完全令人毛骨悚然，但它表明，当谈到追求不朽时，我们已经抓了长时间的稻草。

Being proactive about aging could add years to your life. (Photo: nd3000/Shutterstock.com)

And who doesn’t want to live forever? Yet while scientists, futurists and ponderers have been occupied with the idea for ages, short of cryogenics or a vampire bite, we will all eventually give up the ghost.

谁不想长生不老呢?然而，尽管科学家、未来学家和思忖者们多年来一直在考虑这个想法，但除了低温或吸血鬼的叮咬，我们最终都会放弃这个想法。

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t steps we can take to keep that ghost working a few extra shifts. Modern science hasn’t been immune to the lure of longevity, and researchers have worked tirelessly, reaching a number of conclusions about how not to die so quickly. Here are a whole bunch of them, any of which you can start now.

但这并不意味着我们没有办法让这个幽灵多干几班。现代科学也无法抵挡长寿的诱惑，研究人员不知疲倦地工作，得出了许多关于如何不那么快死亡的结论。这里有一大堆，你可以从任何一个开始。

1. Sing: Researchers in Sweden found that singing improved heart health. More research is being conducted at the University of California San Francisco to determine if singing can lead to a longer, healthier life.

唱歌:瑞典的研究人员发现唱歌可以改善心脏健康。加州大学旧金山分校正在进行更多的研究，以确定唱歌是否能带来更长寿、更健康的生活。

2. For men, stay married: According to The Longevity Project, men who got and stayed married were likely to live beyond age 70, but less than one-third of divorced men made it to that age. Men who never married outlived those who divorced, but not those who stayed married. Marital status made little difference for women.

对于男性来说，保持婚姻:根据长寿项目，已婚和保持婚姻的男性可能活到70岁以上，但只有不到三分之一的离婚男性能活到70岁。没结过婚的男人比离婚的男人寿命长，但没结过婚的男人寿命长。婚姻状况对女性影响不大。

3. Work hard and be conscientious: Also discovered by The Longevity Project, people with conscientious, hard-working personality traits had a longer life by an average of two to three years — that’s equivalent to a 20% to 30% decreased risk of early death.

努力工作，尽职尽责:长寿项目也发现，具有尽职尽责、勤奋工作的性格特征的人平均寿命要长两到三年，这相当于早死的风险降低了20%到30%。

Strawberries and other berries are superfoods with numerous health benefits. (Photo: Thomas Klee/Shutterstock.com)

4. Eat berries: Berries don’t get the “miracle superfood” label slapped on them for nothing; the benefits of eating berries are practically too numerous to mention. Just about any of them will do, but here’s the skinny on 11 berries to improve your health.

吃浆果:浆果不会无缘无故被贴上“神奇超级食物”的标签;吃浆果的好处实在是数不胜数。任何一种浆果都可以，但这里有11种浆果的瘦身方法可以改善你的健康。

5. Stay connected: People who have a social network — as in real-life friends, family or other community — have a tendency to live longer. One study found that widows, for example, live longer that widowers and still-married women because of the social bonds they form with other women.

保持联系:拥有社交网络的人——如现实生活中的朋友、家人或其他社区——往往寿命更长。例如，一项研究发现，寡妇比鳏夫和已婚妇女活得更长，因为她们与其他妇女形成了社会联系。

6. Put on your sneakers: And then run. But you don’t have to be a marathoner to enjoy the life-extending benefits of running. Researchers found that runners lived an average of three years longer than their non-running peers and that running a minimum of 30 minutes to 59 minutes each week at a pace of less than 6 miles per hour offered the same health benefits as running for longer or faster periods.

穿上你的运动鞋:然后跑。但你不必成为一名马拉松运动员才能享受跑步带来的延年益寿的好处。研究人员发现，跑步者比不跑步的同龄人平均多活3年，每周至少跑30分钟到59分钟，速度低于6英里每小时，与跑得更久或更快的人获得的健康益处相同。

Be selfless when you volunteer and it can add to your life. (Photo: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock)

7. Help out, for the right reasons: People who volunteer for selfless reasons live longer than those who do no charity or volunteer work. (However, those who volunteer for self-centered reasons do not reap the same life-extending benefits!)

为了正确的理由去帮助别人:那些为了无私的理由去做志愿者的人比那些不做慈善或志愿工作的人活得长。(然而，那些以自我为中心的志愿者并没有获得同样的延长寿命的好处!)