Live Long, Die Short: Simple Steps for Living Your Healthiest Life

Dr. Roger Landry shares doable, simple steps you use to make sure you're living your healthiest life.
There's a buzz phrase hitting the health circuit: sitting is the new smoking.

What exactly does that mean?

Studies have shown that the risk for disease and early death is as high (or higher) for someone who lives a sedentary lifestyle as it is for a chronic smoker. Even if you exercise every day, but then go sit at your work desk for eight-plus hours, you're still at this heightened risk.

Dr. Roger Landry is a retired, highly-decorated full colonel, former chief flight surgeon at the Air Force Surgeon General’s Office in Washington and a preventive medicine physician who has spent over a decade smashing stereotypes of aging and redefining the possibilities of older adulthood.

Dr. Landry joins Dr. Susanne to share doable, simple steps you use to make sure you're living your healthiest life.

Dr. Landry also explains what he means by the title of his book, Live Long, Die Short.

Additional Info

  • Segment Number: 3
  • Audio File: wellness_for_life/1535wl5d.mp3
  • Featured Speaker: Roger Landry, MD, MPH
  • Guest Facebook Account: https://www.facebook.com/doctorroger
  • Guest Twitter Account: @drrogerlandry
  • Guest Bio: Roger-LandryDr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH received his MD at Tufts University School of Medicine and his MPH 9 (Masters in Public Health) at Harvard University School of Public Health. He is a retired, highly-decorated full colonel, former chief flight surgeon at the Air Force Surgeon General’s Office in Washington, preventive medicine physician who has spent over a decade smashing stereotypes of aging, and redefining the possibilities of older adulthood.

    Dr. Roger Landry has been featured nationally and internationally on radio and TV with NBC, FOX News, ABC and CBS as well as BBC and 2GB radio. Dr. Landry has written exclusive articles, and been called on as an expert in the field of aging, by publications such as US News and World Report, Huffington Post (UK/Canada), About.com –Assisted Living, Expert Beacon and eHow and makes regular appearances on Growing Bolder. Dr. Landry was also featured in Esquire, LA Daily News, GRAND Magazine, Senior Planet, Journal of Aging and Health, Denver Post and ThirdAge.
  • Length (mins): 10
  • Waiver Received: No
  • Host: Susanne Bennett, DC