Doctor Sara shares five healthy habits that can add years to your life

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Dr Sara shares tips for a healthy lifestyle on This MorningITV

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00:00 How do you fancy living a longer, healthier, happy life?

00:03 Well, who wouldn't?

00:04 And it's really, really easy, because Dr. Sarah's

00:06 going to explain all.

00:07 And literally this morning, you're

00:08 going to fix it for all of us, right?

00:10 We're all going to be centenarians.

00:11 No pressure.

00:12 Absolutely.

00:12 No pressure, Sarah.

00:14 Yes, you've got some tips that we need to take on board.

00:17 So at the moment, our current life expectancy for men

00:20 is 79 years.

00:21 For women, it's 82.9 years.

00:24 But there are some simple things that we can all

00:26 do to try and help improve our life expectancy.

00:30 Yes, some of it is genetics, but there

00:31 are things that we can do in a day-to-day, easy way.

00:36 So firstly, I think it's a boring one,

00:38 because everyone always goes, oh, fruit and vegetables,

00:41 obviously.

00:42 But we know that eating 30 fruit and vegetables

00:46 over a period of a week, 30 different ones,

00:49 can help improve our healthiness.

00:53 And I've been asked to specifically pick

00:56 one fruit or vegetable.

00:58 I like this, though.

00:59 What should we be asking?

01:00 I know.

01:00 I was like, god, the pressure.

01:02 And I'm not a huge believer in superfoods or things like that.

01:05 And I think it's a bit unfair to suggest one of those fruits

01:09 you can only get in an island in the middle of the Pacific.

01:12 Please say chips.

01:13 Please say chips.

01:14 Please say chips.

01:15 I'm sorry.

01:16 It's a non-starchy vegetable.

01:18 And I'm going with the humble broccoli.

01:21 Oh, yes.

01:21 Have a bit of broccoli.

01:22 It's cheap.

01:23 It's easily accessible.

01:24 But it's brilliant.

01:25 It's got a chemical called sulforaphane in it.

01:28 And it's been shown that this is an antioxidant

01:32 and an anti-inflammatory.

01:33 And within hours of eating a broccoli,

01:36 you'll find those levels go up in your bloodstream.

01:38 And they help with our immune defenses.

01:41 It also contains vitamin C, vitamins A, vitamin K,

01:45 other nutrients.

01:47 And for example, vitamin A is great for our eyes.

01:50 We need it for a reduced risk of cataracts,

01:53 for age-related macular degeneration, so poor eyesight

01:57 as we grow older.

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