"I'm a Dancer!"
Posted on 04/19/2023 5:39:41 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
As remarkable as her surgery sounds, she isn’t the oldest Israeli recipient of a pacemaker. Over the last decade, Atar’s team has placed pacemakers inside the bodies of at least three others older than 100. The eldest was 107....
Doctors judge according to biological age, and not chronological age, considering factors like a clear mind, lifestyle and diet, normal or low blood pressure, kidney function, the absence or not of diabetes.
“All are predictors of longevity,” said Atar ...
“May you live until 120” is a traditional Jewish birthday blessing, and Israelis already enjoy one of the longest life expectancies in the world, especially men....
However, Israel outperforms the average in health, life satisfaction and strong social connections — 95 per cent of people in Israel know someone they could rely on in a time of need, above the OECD average of 91 per cent.
Other theories for its above-average lifespans have been offered up. The country could be benefiting from genetic diversity. Most older Israelis immigrated to Israel, or the area that became the State of Israel, from 78 different countries around the world ...
People live with, or close to, family. Israel has low levels of loneliness, Weinreb said. It’s reflected in all the international happiness surveys, “where, despite all its problems, and it has many, people in Israel always claim to be happy.” Even in areas where poverty levels are high, life expectancy is much higher than expected...
It may come down to a phenomenon known as the “healthy soldier effect.” At an age when, in most wealthy countries, people stop doing intensive physical stuff, in Israel, you have a large share of people in their 20s carrying 30-kilogram packs uphill for five days, first during their mandatory service, and then during annual reserve duty....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
One of the only things that the US Armed Forces did for me during my stellar 6 year “career” was to get me in the best shape of my life.When I graduated from BCT (50+ years ago) I was 165 pounds,could do 40 pushups and could run 1.5 miles with 30 pounds of gear on my back.
"...The State of Israel requires every citizen over age 18 to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, although Arab citizens are exempted if they so wish. Men are expected to serve a minimum of 32 months, and women 24 months (until quite recently, women didn’t serve in the same combat roles, so their training was not as physically demanding).When Weinreb, an expert in demography, put together a dataset involving 130 countries, he found that, even after controlling for all sorts of variables, military service added more than three years to male life expectancy.
How to explain that? It may come down to a phenomenon known as the “healthy soldier effect.” At an age when, in most wealthy countries, people stop doing intensive physical stuff, in Israel, you have a large share of people in their 20s carrying 30-kilogram packs uphill for five days, first during their mandatory service, and then during annual reserve duty.
Army training potentially sets a precedent for maintaining physical fitness throughout one’s life, Weinreb said.
“No one in public health wants to say there’s anything good about the military. It may be a necessary evil, but to have mandatory conscription is counter to the Anglo-Saxon political ideology of this era.” It runs counter to the norms of liberalism, he said, and people are loathe to admit that there could be a positive health benefit...."
The article's accounting leaves out the most important factor. Living well (which implies long) is the best revenge.
And yarmulkes. You can't overstate how much habitually wearing a yarmulke promotes longevity.
I always wondered about all those preservatives in Military Field Rations. Preserving the troops too?
Maybe… but CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.
That or the lunar calendars vs solar calendars and how Methuselah lived to 969.
Maybe it’s the Gefilte Fish.
“People live with, or close to, family. Israel has low levels of loneliness,”
I suspect that a sustained sense of purpose goes a long way to living a long time.
It’s the Bamba I tell ya, the Bamba!
The men are almost all circumcised. I bet that makes them live longer. But they aren’t happy about it. Lol..
(It’s a joke…)
Maybe because Israel is God’s chosen, or perhaps it is because God gives them EVERY opportunity to embrace the Messiah that they missed.
Either way, it is a stupid article.
Moses made it to 120 without a pacemaker. At least the Bible doesn’t say he had one.
A bet there have been exactly zero times a circumcised man's wife said, "I wish there was more flabby skin on that thing". LOL
"I'm a Dancer!"
30-kilogram packs uphill for five days
LOL - without rest for 5 days, all uphill (its a big hill) 65 lbs of weight.
My guess is diet and a lifetime of family/friends are the bigger factors.
*The State of Israel requires every citizen over age 18 to serve in the Israel Defense Forces*
I get it. Every American should serve 2 years upon H.S. graduation. Good luck with that one.
Gotta admit it wouldn’t hurt. The top 10% of high schoolers would do basic training in the summer and then serve in the reserves.
Hi.
Reminds me of Okinawa.
5.56mm
They may not believe in Jesus but they believe in God. That probably has more to do with it than mandatory military service.
Cause everyone there is a Doctor. Ha,ha.
1 John 2:23.
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