{"id":357970,"date":"2026-04-01T04:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:24:06","slug":"these-3-tiny-lifestyle-changes-might-give-you-a-longevity-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/357970\/","title":{"rendered":"These 3 tiny lifestyle changes might give you a longevity boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ISLFWA42J5DSRJLR5AWGFLPB7Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Scientists believe they may have found the least we can do to change our habits and still meaningfully improve our health and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/03\/03\/muscle-strength-longevity-study\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">longevity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TCDMTJ4ONJGEDLVZDA5JTOQERA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/eclinm\/article\/PIIS2589-5370(25)00676-5\/fulltext\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new study<\/a> involving tens of thousands of men and women, Australian researchers determined that adding about five minutes of sleep, two minutes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/interactive\/2026\/exercises-healthy-aging\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exercise<\/a> and half a serving of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/10\/03\/eat-vegetables-first-food-sequencing\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vegetables<\/a> a day to people\u2019s normal routines could be expected to add a year or more to lifespans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists believe they may have found the least we can do to change our habits and still meaningfully&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-357970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}