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- Proper hygiene practices reduce mortality from infectious diseases, chronic illnesses, and medical complications. Promoting good personal, food, community, and medical hygiene provides substantial increases to life expectancy. Global public health efforts to improve hygiene have added decades to average lifespans over the past century.
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Aug 1, 2001 · In a population that neglects personal hygiene, the increased probability of infection and subsequent illness is self-evident. It is also clear that any practice that reduces the number of potential pathogens on the mother's skin will effectively minimize the probability of infecting her infant.
- Velvl W. Greene
- 2001
Jul 25, 2023 · New longevity research suggests that eight simple, healthy habits, such as not smoking and being physically active, can add decades to one's life expectancy.
- Beth Jojack
May 6, 2024 · A longevity expert and dentist explain why this specific hygiene habit could add years to your life, plus other ways to increase your longevity.
This cross-cultural evidence adds consistency and perhaps some specificity to the web of circumstantial historic evidence that attributes human health and life expectancy improvements to personal hygiene changes during the last century.
Apr 30, 2018 · Maintaining five healthy habits — eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too much alcohol, and not smoking — during adulthood may add more than a decade to life expectancy, according to a new study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Sep 1, 2001 · Increased life expectancy since the first half of the 20th century can be attributed to improved hygiene status resulting in decreased infectious disease incidence.
