Apparently Shopping Can Prolong Life

Most of people would want a longer survival in this world or longevity. Many studies have been conducted to find out how someone can live a long life. But recently it is known that the secret of longevity can be obtained by frequent shopping.

At least there are 3 reasons that make the hobby of shopping can make a person stay young in the sense of more rare deadly illness. One of them is, involving expenditure of physical activity because they have to at least walk down the supermarket aisles.


Compared to never moved at all, mild physical activity is certainly very useful. Variety of serious diseases ranging from obesity to heart attacks is much influenced by the factors of physical activity, ie less sedentary.

The last reason is the intake of nutrients, because someone who diligently spending tend to have more stock of fresh food at home. People who rarely rely on stored food shopping in the fridge, which was not fresh and sometimes nutrient has decreased.

"This fact is very nice, but I would not conclude that the expenditures made ​​longevity. Characteristics of individual people who like to spend more influence longevity," said Prof. S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois, as quoted from HealthDay, Thursday (7 / 4 / 2011).