The key to living longer could be to eat a healthy, balanced diet - including at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day - as well as regular exercise. But you could boost your life expectancy by regularly eating turmeric, it's been claimed.

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.

Adding more turmeric to your diet could protect against some types of cancer, experts revealed.

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"Several spices have been linked to protecting against cancer, including ginger and black pepper.

"But the strongest evidence so far is for turmeric. Several lab-based studies show that curcumin in turmeric seems to be able to kill cancer cels, particularly in the breast, bowel, stomach and skin, plus it even seems to prevent more from growing.

Eating turmeric could also help to protect against dementia, they added.

Curcumin may prevent plaques forming in the brain, which are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimers disease.

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