Click here for the Healthy Life Expectancy CalculatorAs the old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. Everyone understands the benefits of living a long healthy life, but this also has implications for industry and society. We call this measure of quality of life “healthy life expectancy” and its complement “unhealthy life expectancy.” We define entering an unhealthy state as a severe enough state of disablement that there is no recovery, so you remain unhealthy until death. We have already seen that diet, exercise and sufficient sleep positively impact healthy life expectancy. Since healthy life expectancy is also related to quality of life and level of health, a relative index could compare an individual’s results against a benchmark healthy life expectancy for someone with “average” characteristics.

Source: National Post October 18, 2017 18:56 UTC