Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of Cooper Clinic, discusses the United Kingdom study Combined Impact of Health Behaviours and Mortality in Men and Women: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study reported in PLoS Medicine http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050012.  Researchers examined the prospective relationship between lifestyle and mortality in a prospective population study of 20,244 men and women aged 45 - 79, and found that four healthy lifestyle habits resulted in participants living an average of 14 years longer than those who didn't practice any of the four lifestyle habits.

We also give the calculation for Body Mass Index (BMI), http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/, and explain the categories.