Seniors Live Longer by Shopping Daily

A recent study from Taiwan reports that elderly people who shop frequently will likely live longer than their non-shopping counterparts. The nine year study included 1,850 elderly people over the age of sixty-four.

The results showed that the elderly people who shopped every day had a 27% lower risk of death than those who shopped the least frequently. When the researchers divided the frequent shoppers by sex, women had a 23% lower risk of death, and men had a 28% lower risk.

See Catharine Paddock, Seniors Who Shop Frequently Live Longer, Medical News Today, Apr. 11, 2011.

Special thanks to Jim Hillhouse (WealthCounsel) for bringing this to my attention.