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 San Diego, California, April 2011— Want to live a longer life? According to RealAge, you should consider moving to Salt Lake City, San Francisco, or Austin. RealAge.com
Although many factors must be taken into consideration when discussing longevity in relation to where you lived is concerned, these three cities lead RealAge’s Top 10 list of the "youngest" cities in America—metropolitan areas with such healthy lifestyles that on average their residents are physically at least two years younger than their chronological age, with many years younger than that. To reach these conclusions, RealAge reports they analyzed data from the largest 50 metropolitan areas to compile the rankings. Some of the reasons cited were in finding large populations of people who did not smoke, and had a passion for fitness. On the other end of the list, residents of Knoxville, Greensboro/Winston-Salem and Nashville are aging faster than they should. Here’s the group that made the cut (the Top 10): 1. Salt Lake City, Utah 2. San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, California 3. Austin, Texas 4. Denver, Colorado 5. Boston, Massachusetts 6. Washington, DC/Baltimore, Maryland. 7. San Diego, California 8. Raleigh-Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina 9. Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota 10. Seattle/Tacoma/Bremerton, Washington And those picking up the rear are: 1. Knoxville, Tennessee 2. Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point, North Carolina 3. Nashville, Tennessee 4. Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, Michigan 5. Cincinnati, Ohio 6. Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida 7. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 8. Las Vegas, Nevada 9. Jacksonville, Florida 10. Tulsa, Oklahoma While the medical staff at RealAge insists these rankings are just a number, they do point out that it’s a realistic and unique assessment of the healthy lifestyles, or lack of them, in each metro area—of “how people live there, what they’re doing right and what they need to change. If you live in one of the 10 oldest cities, take this as the alarm on your body's aging clock going off! It's never too late for a fresh start.” Other factors that must be taken into account when contemplating a list like this is that most of the ‘younger’ cities (population that skews younger0 live in the Western part of the country, approximately between Denver and Seattle – with weather and geographic surroundings being possible factors. In preparation for this report, RealAge took the results of their “RealAge Test” taken by over 27 million people, then randomly sampled 1,000 from each of our metropolitan areas. As this was done, they adjusted for age differences, so that areas that drew retirees was not penalized and a city filled with college-age students didn’t benefit. No matter where you live, here are some of the basic tenets to follow to maintain your health, look and act younger than you really are, and possibly add a few years to a productive life: a) Get the right amount of sleep, like 6 to 9 hours a night. b) Stub out cigarettes, pipes and cigars and stay away from smokeless tobacco. c) Get off your butt: a brisk 30-minute each day can make you look and act almost 4 years younger. d) Control your blood pressure; those living in the Twin Cities up in Minnesota have the lowest of any metro area. For the complete ranking of America’s 50 Youngest and Oldest Cities, please visit: http://www.realage.com/look-young-stay-sharp/aging-well/best-and-worst-cities-for-staying-young. RealAge.com is a leading health and wellness site centered around the groundbreaking RealAge Test—a highly scientific but simple-to-take test that calculates how old your body thinks you are. RealAge, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Magazines, a division of the Hearst Corporation. SOURCE: RealAge
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