3 Great Tips To Get You To Live To See 100

If you want to live to see 100, then we have some good news for you and could get you there. More than ever it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility to live to the century mark. With the advent of new drugs that can cure or help us cope with the maladies that we once fell victim to and lessened our chances of doing it.

It is always interesting to hear from people that did live to see 100, they all have some kind of tip that they believe is the "secret" to their success. Perhaps it's having a glass of red wine every day or the opposite, never touching a drop of alcohol. Some centurions will say that never sweat the small stuff or try to laugh everyday.

There are hundreds of theories as to how some of us make it to 100 and most of don't, but now experts have reduced it all down to just 3 habits that will give us a better chance of getting there.

None of them will shock you, but it's interesting.  The study found even getting better about them in your 70s or 80s can up your chances of hitting 100.  Here are the three habits . . .

1.  Don't smoke.  People in the study who never smoked were 25% more likely to make it to 100 than smokers. If you're still smoking, the time to quit is NOW, because you might still have time to let your body recover at least some of it's health back.

2.  Exercise.  Even if you've never worked out, doing it NOW can help.  People who get regular exercise are 31% more likely to hit 100. The good news is, you don't have to be a workout maniac to get results, just get moving.

3.  Eat a diverse diet.  That means healthy things, like fruits and veggies . . . NOT hitting five different fast food places a week.  Eating a diverse selection of healthy foods can up your odds of hitting 100 by 23%. You don't need anyone to tell you what not to eat, we all know a box of donuts or a bag of chips on a regular basis is not going to get us to 100.

The study found two surprising things might NOT make a big difference though.  Body mass index and drinking weren't significant factors.

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A recent survey asked millennials what phrases they would like to retire most. We have put together the top eight most egregious sayings and phrases that are the most often used and most off putting. If you could care less, than you are using the expression wrong, and that bothers them too. It's you Couldn't Care Less!

When you get to be a Boomer’s age, you will find yourself using them as well, but not if millennials have anything to do with it. They save time and help you sum up what you meant to say in much fewer words. When you tell someone that it was meant to be, you mean to say, that it's out of your hands and maybe there is a good reason for it happening

I believe we’re all guilty of using phrases as needed. They’re very useful when it comes to conversations. For instance, if somebody is having a bad day and they don’t understand why things are happening to them. A good phrase to use would be well it is what it is, so deal with it.

The survey listed a dozen or so that are either over used, miss used, make no sense or are just plain tired and are ready for retirement.

This is an expression that is typically used when someone is either feeling great about your current situation, or if you're not feeling great about your current situation. Either way, millennials are over it and don't care about your dreams apparently.

This is one is an old expression used as an umbrella explanation for anything a boy (man) does that there is really no good excuse for or reason, such as when boys decide it would be a swell idea to jump off the roof and into the swimming pool. Not smart, but boys will be boys!

When you really don't have much to say about a situation that might be out of your control, example, "wow, the price of eggs is crazy, but it is what it is". For millennials they don't believe that things are what they are and can change what it is.

The phrase means to succeed without the help of someone else, for millennials it makes no sense, after all it's physically impossible to pick yourself up by your bootstraps. The expression dates back to 1800's when you actually had bootstraps to pull on.

Millennials don't like to be welcomed to the real world, because they feel like they've been in the "real world" their whole life, and when a Boomer uses the phrase, it's probably after a complaint was lodged for whatever reason, say for instance, the amount of taxes taken out of their paycheck.

This phrase assumes that their life is pre-ordained by a higher power, like God. Millennials are less likely to believe in that and don't like to think that things happen for a reason, they prefer to think that sometimes things happen for no good reason.

Millennials don't like this phrase for  a lot of reasons, they don't like it when a Boomer says it because, they look pretty happy and why not? Their mortgage is probably close to being paid off and they might have a pretty happy life that money helped pay for. Plus. they've grown up watching the Kardashians life and they generally look pretty happy on their private jets.

Millennials have grown up being inundated with endless videos of customers (like airline customers) being very rude. They've seen people loose their minds at a fast food restaurant because they didn't get enough fries in their bag. Let's be honest, the customer is Not Always right, in fact they can be very wrong.