Live a little (longer)

If you're going to make a resolution, maybe these will be good choices. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Want to live long and prosper? Step one would seem to be: make sure you "live long."

We've seen recently that drinking lots of coffee makes a long life more likely. (Also, never smoking.

Now, I’ve got four more life habits to suggest, thanks to research by a neuroscientist at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

For nearly two decades, Claudia Kawas, a professor of neurobiology and behavior and neurology at the University of California, Irvine has led a team studying the health and habits of over the age of 90, to determine what makes it more likely that people will live to that age.

The cohort is called simply the 90+ Study. It’s ongoing, in fact; details are at the bottom of this newsletter if you know someone over 90 who might want to join).

Here are the key findings Kawas presented that suggested people would live longer. Two of them are especially surprising. 

• They drink alcohol. Participants in the 90+ Study who consumed the equivalent of two glasses of beer or win…