After decades of red wine, no exercise and 15 cigarettes a day, these are the super-easy lifestyle tweaks that gave me a scientifically proven biological age of 20 - at 61: SANDRA PARSONS
For more than 25 years, I smoked 15 cigarettes a day. I loved smoking. It was the one thing in a busy, stressful life of work and motherhood that gave me a little 'me time'. It wasn't the only thing about my lifestyle that was unhealthy either.
Until I hit my 40s, my diet was poor: I'd shove a ready meal into the oven at least a couple of times a week. Most nights I drank a glass of wine or two to unwind. I craved sugar in the afternoons and ate a chocolate bar every day. I did no exercise. None at all.
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