That's for sure...
“...the complete lives system combines four morally relevant principles: youngest-first, prognosis, lottery, and saving the most lives."
Another article:
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-longevity-genes-20110803,0,5216590.story
“The key, researchers concluded, may lie in genetics. “This study suggests that centenarians may possess additional longevity genes that help to buffer them against the harmful effects of an unhealthy lifestyle,” said senior author Dr. Nir Barzilai in a news release. Barzilai is director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in tNew York, N.Y.”
That's for sure...
“...the complete lives system combines four morally relevant principles: youngest-first, prognosis, lottery, and saving the most lives."
I would consider it lucky not to live till 100.
Good, now I feel better about my cigars and bourbon habit. I wasn’t going to give them up anyway but its nice to know that it wouldn’t matter a tinkers damn even if I did. Finally, some good news.
Only thing I’ve noticed is that not too many really elderly folk (90 plus) who still get around well either smoke or appear portly, although they may have done so when younger.
3 of my grandparents made it to their mid 90’s. They were not paragons of a healthy lifestyle. My dad is 78 and is healthy as a horse.
Contradicts the findings of The Longevity Project. http://www.howardsfriedman.com/longevityproject/
Good, I should have never quit smoking then.
"What is the secret of a long and happy life?"
"Well," he replied, "I smoke a carton of cigarettes and drink a case of whiskey everyday, eat nothing but bacon and ice-cream and do drugs regularly."
"Thats amazing!" the women said. "And how old are you?"
"26" the man replied.
she as born in England in 1896 - remembered Queen Victoria's funeral cortege. She was a consummate story teller and possessed that fine - and sometimes a bit bawdy - sense of humor.
She'd have a bit of bread with her butter ;o) ,,, ate few vegetables, lots of meat with out worrying about fat.
She had two favorite drinks: red rose tea and Old Fashioneds - altho’ vodka was not shunned.
I have noticed that whiskey seems to be a common denominator in people living - and healthily - over 100.
Wish I could stand the taste of it!
Gee, what surprise. Not.
Living to be 100 is probably genes, but living to be 75 probably does have something to do with lifestyle. Many don’t make it 75 (or the average life expectancy in the US).
So I went to the doctor and asked him if I’d live to be 90. He asked me,
“Do you smoke?’
“No, I quit”
“Do you drink?”
“No. I quit that too.”
“Do you eat red meat?”
“No, I stopped that”
“Do you chase women?”
“I’d like to, but I quit that too.”
Then what the hell do you want to live to 90 for?
My mom is quickly approaching 80 and used to eat lunch with a doctor friend. He would put pepper on his hard boiled egg because salt was bad, never smoked or drank, exercised regularly. She told me over a steak dinner the other day that she missed visiting with him. He died of a heart attack at 65.