Adding life to years, not years to life


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Lifestyle factors such as partaking in physical activity have a profound effect on how we age. — Filepic

Dear Mayo Clinic: I’ve been hearing a lot lately about healthspan versus lifespan when it comes to ageing. What do they each mean? And what is the difference?We get a lot of questions about what distinguishes between lifespan and healthspan.

The simplest answer is to paraphrase a quote from President John F. Kennedy, “It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to life – our objective must also be to add new life to those years.”

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