The Secret to Longer Life: Win a Nobel Prize

Forget about yoghurt and yoga and anything Yo Mama said. The secret to living a longer life is winning a Nobel Prize in either chemistry or physics. Choose one. That, at least, is the conclusion of researchers at the University of Warwick in central England, whose study revealed  that scientists
who have won the prize for their work in chemistry and physics
not only get cash and kudos but they live two years longer than
colleagues who have only been nominated. The Scientific American reports on the effort, which compared the
lifespan of 524 scientists who had been nominated for the prize
between 1901 and 1950, including 135 who had won it. The average lifespan in the group was 76 years but winners
lived on average 1.4 years longer than nominees. Sciam reports that tthe gap
widened another two-thirds of a year when winners and losers
from the same country were compared.