Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine


ISSN: 2300-9705     eISSN: 2353-2807    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/cej.2018.2-06
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Issue archive / Vol. 22, No. 2/2018
Lifestyle versus a Person’s Life Span

Authors: Marian Sygit
University of Szczecin, Poland, Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Physical Education and Health Promotion

Katarzyna Sygit ORCID
University of Szczecin, Poland, Department of Health Promotion, Faculty of Physical Education and Health Promotion

Tomasz Karkowski
University of Łódź, Poland, Department of Labor and Social Policy, Faculty of Economics and Sociology

Jan Krakowiak
Medical University of Łódź, Social Medicine Unit, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Keywords: lifestyle health behaviours life expectancy old age family
Data publikacji całości:2018-06-31
Page range:10 (51-60)
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Abstract

Numerous studies indicate that a person's lifestyle has a positive impact on their health. However, in spite of the predominant anti-health lifestyle, the average length of life in the past few decades has increased. What is the relation between a lifestyle and life expectancy? Does the lifestyle affect human life span? Epidemiological and prospective-retrospective studies were used to evaluate a 20-year long population-based experiment, which involved in-depth studies, analyses and evaluations of three related families who resided in the same community, had the same education level, and the same period of socialization and tradition. To evaluate the collected research material, the authors used their own: Scale for evaluating nutrition habits; Criteria to assess health behaviours of subjects; Criteria for diet assessment. The studied families led a similar lifestyle, with prevalence of anti-health behaviours. Theoretically, subjects should live a similar number of years. However, the length of their lives varied. Members of families with higher number of anti-health factors lived, in fact, longer. The authors confirmed the hypothesis that the lifestyle of the examined families was an important contributor to their health, but certainly it was not the only factor to determine their life expectancy. The length of lives of the examined family members varied despite a similar lifestyle.
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