Dr. David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, says that it’s not the occasional indulgence but consistent over-eating of certain foods that can impact your longevity. Calculating that the average life spans about 80 years, he divided that time up for adults 35 and older into nearly a million half hours, and assigned each 30 minute period to be 1 microlife. Each microlife is about one millionth of life expectancy after age 35.
Smoking eats up approximately 10 microlives for every 20 cigarettes smoked — or about 15 fewer minutes of life expectancy per cigarette.
吸烟时,每吸20支烟就会大概消耗10个微生命;或者说,每支烟会让寿命减少15分钟。 Averaged over a lifetime, the following habits are linked to the loss of one microlife: smoking two cigarettes, eating a burger, being roughly 11 pounds overweight, chugging a second or third alcoholic beverage, and watching two hours of television.
On the positive side, behaviors that can add half hours of life expectancy include: drinking 2-3 cups of coffee or taking statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs (one microlife), eating fruits and vegetables (four microlives), and working out 20 minutes per day (two microlives). (Source: time. com) 从另一方面来看,能够帮助增加微生命的行为有:喝2到3杯咖啡或吃降低胆固醇的他汀类药物(1个微生命),吃水果蔬菜(4个微生命),每天锻炼20分钟(2个微生命)。