Life Ahead computes how risk of major diseases can develop or regress at each age of life as a result of various influencing factors. A user first enters information about exercise, diet, and other habits. Also a variety of health measurements are asked that can be helpful if available. The program then develops the WELL-DAYS, or the number of future days alive and free of major disease a population of people having these identified habits and health factors probably will enjoy.
Life Ahead next selects the usually acceptable changes in habits that can slow down the progress of these killer diseases. Key new capabilities of Life Ahead include its more accurate than previous analysis of the importance of up to 23 different nutrients in diets. And its new and important analysis of the benefits of vitamin and other diet supplements. And its more accurate than past analyses of the cardiofitness and health benefits of each kind and amount of exercise. The program then re-computes and displays the reductions in risk of each disease and the likely added Well-Days of life that will result from each habit change. A user can then view the specific actions needed to obtain the improvement in Well-Days possible that often will total to 15 or more years of potential healthful life for a person of middle age. Life Ahead then usually can suggest how risk of heart disease can be reduced by more than ten times. Or how risk of cancer can be reduced four times. The analysis can warn some users of a 95% likelihood of a heart attack as soon as within the next ten years, and show how this usually can be avoided.
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