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“I’ve been this way all my life, why change?” To find out, investigators used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk and Community Survey to assess the frequency with which individuals aged 45 and older adopted a healthy lifestyle and to study the results of those changes. At the beginning of the study, 1344 of the15,708 participants (8.6%) engaged in four tracked healthy lifestyle habits (consumption of 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day, regular exercise, maintaining body-mass index of 18.5 to 29.9 kg/m2, no current smoking).
Six years later, another 970 participants (8.4% of those not practicing a healthy lifestyle at baseline) had newly adopted all four tracked habits. Men, African Americans, individuals with low socioeconomic status, a…