True or False

Ok here goes a true and false health quiz

1. Switching from regular to diet soda helps you live longer?

2. Which change helps you live longer, cutting fat or cutting calories?

3. Which exercise is believed to help you live longer, push-ups or squats?


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The Pop Quiz Answers
Here are the answers to the pop quiz with a little commentary from yours truly: Actually the commentary is from Jillian the Trainer from the Biggest Loser program.

1. False. Diet soda is some nasty stuff, and if you don't know how much I hate it, you're not paying attention. Research indicates that diet soda raises the risk of metabolic syndrome, and the artificial sweeteners in it can throw off the way your brain associates sweetness with caloric content.

2. Cutting calories may help you live longer. Research has found that animals on calorie-restricted diets have longer lives; it's thought eating fewer calories makes the body more efficient.

3. Squats contribute to longevity. How? They help you develop lower-body strength and improve balance, which may keep you from falling and cracking a hip in old age. (You might think this an odd longevity-booster, but broken hips can be devastating to older people — it's often the event that strips them of their mobility and independence.)

So get off that Diet Coke, cut those calories, and do those squats — got it?