14 Ways to Extend Your Expiration Date

Live longer, healthier, and happier by following these easy tips:

1. Change your attitude. Think positive and you’ll live longer.
2. Get enough sleep. Living a full life takes energy.
3. Don’t sleep too much. Too much sleep will make you sluggish and depressed—two things that a long life can’t thrive on.
4. Have lots of sex. Sex reduces anxiety and stress and increases happiness—two things that a long live DOES thrive on!
5. Get regular checkups. Visit your doctor once a year (and then much more as you get older) and go for regular disease screenings. Catching illnesses quickly generally means they can be treated quickly.
6. Take your meds. Doctor usually knows best when it comes to your medical care. If you’re prescribed a blood pressure or cholesterol medication, it’s probably because you need it. Staying on top of your health care could save your life. Meanwhile, there’s nothing wrong with getting a second opinion if you think your doctor has over-prescribed you with too many medications.
7. Quit smoking.
8. Watch your weight. Overeating can lead to obesity and other diseases like diabetes and colon cancer. Lose weight, eat healthy, and live longer.
9. Load up on antioxidants. Vitamins and minerals are good for you in general, but it’s the antioxidants found in blueberries, dark chocolate, and cinnamon that will keep you alive for longer.
10. Exercise. It’ll keep your body strong, help with a positive attitude, and give you energy.
11. Marry the right person. A happy marriage can add years on to your life. Having a partner that you love and that loves you gives some people motivation to live well beyond an age they’d live to on their own.
12. Have kids. Like with marriage, having children gives some people an extra oomph to keep chugging along. It also helps if your children are involved in your medical care as you get well on in years.
13. Hang out with friends. Lonely people get depressed as they age and are less likely to live past 90.
14. Laugh. After all, don’t we all know by now that laughter is the greatest medicine?