SCORE

LONGEVITY QUIZ

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1. Do you smoke or chew tobacco, or are you around a lot of secondhand smoke? Yes (-20) No (0)

2. Do you cook your fish, poultry, or meat until it is charred? Yes (-2) No (0)

3. Do you avoid butter, cream, pastries, and other saturated fats as well as fried foods? (e.g. french fries?) Yes (+3) No (-7)

4. Do you minimize meat in your diet, preferably making a point to eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and bran instead? Yes (+5) No (-4)

5. Do you consume more than two drinks of beer, wine, and/or liquor a day? (Standard drink is one 12oz. Bottle of beer, one wine cooler, one 5oz. Glass of wine, or one and a half ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits) Yes (-10) No (0)

6. Do you drink beer, wine, and/or liquor in moderate amounts (1-2 drinks per day)? Yes (+3) No (0)

7. Do air pollution warnings occur where you live? Yes (-4) No (+1)

8. Do you drink more than 16 ounces of coffee a day? Yes (-3) No (0) Do you drink tea daily? Yes(+3) No (0)

9. Do you take an aspirin a day? Yes (+4) No (0)

10. Do you floss your teeth everyday? Yes (+2) No(-4)

11. Do you have a bowel movement less frequently than once every two days? Yes (-4) No (0)

12. Have you had a stroke or heart attack? Yes (-10) No (0)

13. Do you try to get a suntan? Yes (-4) No (+3)

14. Are you more than 20 pounds overweight? Yes (-10) No (0)

15. Do you live near enough other family members (other than your spouse or dependent children) that you can and want to drop by spontaneously? Yes (+5) No (-4)

16. Which statement applies to you? A) "Stress eats away at me, I can't seem to shake it off" Yes (-7)

B) "I can shed stress." This might be by praying, exercising, meditating, finding humor in everyday life, or other means. Yes (+7)

17. Did both of your parents either die before age 75 of nonaccidental causes or require daily assistance by the time they reached age 75? Yes (-10) No (0) Don't Know (0)

18. Did more than one of the following relatives lice to at least age 90 in excellent health: Parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents? Yes (+24) No (0) Don't Know (0)

19. A) Are you a couch potato (do no regular aerobic or resistance exercise)? Yes (-7) B) Do you exercise at least three times a week? Yes (+7)

20. Do you take vitamin E (400-800 IU) and selenium (100-200 MCG) everyday? Yes (+5) No (-3)

SCORE

STEP 1: Add the negative and positive scores together. Example: -45 plus +30 = -15. Divide the preceding score by 5 (-15 divided by 5 = -3).

STEP 2: Add the negative or positive number to age 84 if you are a man or age 88 if you are a women (example: -3 + 88 = 85 ) to get your estimated life span.