Did you know that reducing your carbon footprint could help you to achieve a longer, healthier life? There are many choices in your daily life that influence both the environment and your longevity. Here are three of the most influential…

1. Reduce your consumption of convenience foods, anything in a package or can. I’m sure you’re well aware that packaging of convenience foods has an enormous, negative, impact on the environment. Do you know how it affects your health? In general, packaged foods are higher in salt, other preservatives, saturated fat, food colorings and high fructose corn syrup. These contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, cancer and obesity. If you want to live a longer, healthier life, choose foods with the least amount of processing and packaging.

2. Eat less red meat. Raising livestock contributes substantially to global warming. It also contributes substantially to obesity, heart disease, and cancer. The growth hormones, saturated fat and excess iron in red meat are unquestionably bad for your health. The more you eat, the greater your carbon footprint, the greater the risk for age-related disease, the shorter your potential lifespan.

3. Avoid modern conveniences when practical. Take the stairs, walk or bike instead of drive, watch less television, use your brain instead of a calculator, hang your laundry out instead of using a dryer. You get the idea. The more active you are, the lower your blood pressure, lower your risk for stroke, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis. The more active you are, the lower your carbon footprint.

These are simple choices that can change your life, your world, and how long your are in it. For a more thorough description of these and other steps you can take to live longer, please visit healthspan101.com.

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