Long life: Start young

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Aron Schatz

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Long life: Start young

Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:26:07 AM #29058 Perm Link

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10656

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It turned out that first-born children were 1.7 times as likely as their siblings to live to be 100. An even stronger predictor of longevity was how young their mother was when they were born. Those whose mothers were less than 25 years old were twice as likely to survive beyond a century.

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daemon

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Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:55:01 AM #29065 Perm Link

Sounds interesting but I wouldn't want to be a useless old fart who requires help from others to wipe my bum by that age LOL

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Re: Long life: Start young

Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:45:53 AM #29128 Perm Link

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It turned out that first-born children were 1.7 times as likely as their siblings to live to be 100./QUOTE]

I made it past thirty, so everything else is gravy.

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Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:57:46 AM #29139 Perm Link

i dont want live that long. life becomes so miserable and boring when you are too old.

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Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:04:50 AM #29141 Perm Link

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Age is not something that should determine physical ability. Age is a problem that has a cure. One day, people will live for much longer than we currently do. I don't want to die till I'm good and ready.

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Thu Feb 8, 2007 12:31:17 AM #33789 Perm Link

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Age is not something that should determine physical ability. Age is a problem that has a cure. One day, people will live for much longer than we currently do. I don't want to die till I'm good and ready.

Longevity has already vastly increased since the second half of the 20th century. As a friend of mine once put it, "I'm planning to live forever. So far, so good". Wink