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Highlights

• Just five minutes extra sleep, two minutes brisk walking and half serving of vegetables daily could add one year to lifespan.
• Optimal combination of seven to eight hours sleep and 40 minutes daily exercise associated with nine additional years of life.
• Five minutes more daily physical activity linked to 10 per cent reduction in deaths amongst majority of adults.

Small daily improvements in sleep, physical activity and diet could add years to people's lives, according to groundbreaking research offering a more achievable approach to healthy lifestyle changes.

A study published in The Lancet's eClinicalMedicine journal found that increasing sleep by five minutes, brisk walking by two minutes and consuming an additional half serving of vegetables per day could add a year of life for those with the poorest health habits.