What size bra do you wear? How’s your smell? Can I still wear jeans from college? The answers to all these questions and other strange physical clues may be a surprising predictor of potential health problems in the future. You can conduct a “quick self check” to find these clues to understand your future health.
In the process of studying human life and health, scientists have found more and more strange physical features and clues, which may be the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases. Now, please take out a mirror and a tape measure, and use the following 10 DIY tests to predict your future health. At the same time, you can also understand the ideal strategies that can help change your own destiny.
1. The length ratio of finger, index finger and ring finger is related to female knee osteoarthritis
A study published in the journal Arthritis and rheumatology in 2008 found that women with index fingers shorter than ring fingers may have twice the risk of knee osteoarthritis as other women. Researchers said that women with this feature, which mainly appears in men, tend to secrete less estrogen, which may play a role in the formation of osteoarthritis.
How to prevent: strengthen the muscles around the knee. When sitting down, stretch your legs out and parallel to the floor. Do it 10 times, lasting for 5 to 10 seconds each time.
2. Height, 1.57m, is a reference that may affect human life span
According to a study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, women who are more than 5 feet 2 inches tall may lack a genetic mutation that can help them live to 100 years old.
How to prevent: develop the habits of Seventh Day Adventists in California, who are one of the most concentrated groups of centenarians in the world. Their living habits include not smoking, drinking less and eating less meat.
(internship editor: Zhu Yanmei)
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