Longevity
Posted on June 8, 2008
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“The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.” ‘The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest’Buettner says one such zone, the Italian island of Sardinia, has the highest number of male centenarians in the world, while another, Okinawa, Japan, has the longest disability-free life expectancy. In Loma Linda, Calif., a community of Seventh Day Adventists has a life expectancy that’s nine to 11 years greater than that of other Americans. And middle-age mortality is lowest on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula — where Buettner says middle-aged residents have about a four-fold greater chance of reaching age 90 than people in the United States do.
Diet, stress and exercise are the way you can control how rapidly we age.
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