Few American women would put veggies on the top of their 'can't-live-without' list. Likewise, eating healthy doesn't mean you have to deprive yourself or make life difficult: One glass of wine per day cuts your odds of dying by 20 percent, according to Health.com.There are other ways of reducing your risk of a premature death, too, according to the latest findings from the Nurses' Health Study, involving nearly 80,000 participants. Besides eating well, you need to stay in a healthy weight range, exercise, and quit smoking.

Health experts say you can cut your odds of premature death by more than half by:

  • Eatting right
  • Staying fit
  • Exercising
  • Not smoking
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People practice yoga at the Tel Aviv port, as part of the "White Night" festival. REUTERS
In a recent study that followed 683 Canadian adolescents from 12 to 15 years old for 12 years, researchers headed by Kwan found a 24 percent decrease in physical activity from adolescence to early adulthood.
In a recent study that followed 683 Canadian adolescents from 12 to 15 years old for 12 years, researchers headed by Kwan found a 24 percent decrease in physical activity from adolescence to early adulthood. Reuters/Carlos Rawlins
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Trick 3: ExercisingYoga instructor Michael Hayes, owner of Buddha Body Yoga, warms up before teaching his class in New York City May 7, 2011. Buddha Body Yoga offers small classes, individual attention, and plenty of blocks, bolsters, belts, balance balls and blankets to ease recalcitrant limbs into warriors poses. But there won't be the usual bevy of pony-tailed sylphs making pretzel shapes. Buddha Body yoga is strictly for the plus-sized practitioner: no sylphs allowed. REUTERS
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Trick 1: Eating Right Organic vegetables are shown at a Whole Foods Market in LaJolla, California. As recession tests the middle-class commitment to healthy eating and environmentally sound farming, sales of organic food are slowing, but so far not falling. How green are our wallets? REUTERS
Woman smoking
A woman smokes a cigarette. REUTERS
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