"The chances of a person living to 80 are based mostly on behaviour—don't smoke, eat well and exercise—but the chances of living beyond that are based largely on genetics."
"The results were clear: those taking vitamins and supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease than those who didn't take them -- the opposite of what researchers had anticipated."Be careful, as this is not health advice, but consider talking to your doctor before taking any medication, including vitamin pills - it seems that they are not as harmless as we thought, and may do more harm than good on your road to a healthy longevity.
“It is well known that aerobic fitness is strongly related to survival, but our study also shows that maintaining high levels of body flexibility, muscle strength, power-to-body weight ratio and co-ordination are not only good for performing daily activities but have a favorable influence on life expectancy”So, here is a simple way of checking how healthy you are: just sit down, get up, and keep in good shape and balance to reach 100 years!
If you pay careful attention to the way Ikarians have lived their lives, it appears that a dozen subtly powerful, mutually enhancing and pervasive factors are at work. It’s easy to get enough rest if no one else wakes up early and the village goes dead during afternoon naptime.This phenomenon has a name: The Roseto Effect describes the uncommon health and longevity of citizens from Roseto, Pennsylvania (USA) in the 50s and how these differences disappeared as Roseto became more "Americanized" in the 1960s. The studies point that erosion of traditionally cohesive family and community relationships increased the mortality rate.
Responding to frequent inquiries asking questions such as, "What are the odds of being killed by lightning?" or "What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?" the Injury Facts® 2011 edition includes a comprehensive table of the odds of dying from a variety of causes.
... to lose weight and keep it off, a person must eat fewer calories and exercise far more than a person who maintains the same weight naturally. (...) Years later they are paying attention to every calorie, spending an hour a day on exercise. They never don’t think about their weight.
9. Aging can be reversed. [...] Reversing the arrow of time for living organisms is a technological challenge, not a physical impossibility. [...]
10. A lifespan is a billion heartbeats. [...] Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in slower heart rates. These effects cancel out, so that animals from shrews to blue whales have lifespans with just about equal number of heartbeats — about one and a half billion, if you simply must be precise. [...]
Big Think - Living Longer, Better and Maybe Forever are a series of video interviews with different experts on the topic of longevity, that are thought provoking and worth seeing: Medical breakthroughs are helping people live longer and healthier lives than they ever did before. Here Big Think presents some of the latest discoveries and information about anti-aging technology, and considers how our society might have to change if we all start living to be 120, 150—or beyond.
Why live 100 years if you cannot be happy?