Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including a well-rounded diet is crucial to prolonging your lifespan.
You could also boost your lifespan by doing regular exercise. Its the miracle cure weve all been waiting for, according to the NHS.
Making some small diet or lifestyle changes could help to increase your life expectancy and avoid an early death.
One of the best ways to raise your chances of a long life is to regularly eat ginger, it's believed.
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"Studies show ginger fights nausea, stimulates bile production, relieve stomach discomfort, and speeds transit through the digestive tract," they said in their book Eat Better Live Longer Understand What Your Body Needs To Stay Healthy.
"It also helps to break up and dispel intestinal gas, to counter bloating.
"Gingers strong anti-inflammatory action may help to relieve pain associated with conditions such as arthritis, they said.
"A review of five studies found taking ginger reduced pain by nearly a third and disability by 22 percent in people with osteoarthritis."
If you're not a big fan of the taste of ginger, you could also try swapping it for turmeric.
Turmeric is a great anti-ageing remedy, due to its active ingredient; curcumin.
Curcumin has strong anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which specifically protects the heart, lungs and brain from a number of conditions.
People that eat the most turmeric have even been claimed to have a lower risk of developing cancer.
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How to live longer - the best spice to protect against early death and bowel cancer - Express
