Parsad Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 Article on longevity...I thought I would post it, as Irving Kahn is on the list. Also, read the comments section, as there are a couple of very funny jokes! Cheers! http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/odd-tricks-people-who-lived-past-100-swear-by-184109562.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 My trick to fight the diseases of aging is to donate money to biomedical research (more specifically, the SENS Research Foundation -- www.sens.org) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 +1 for: "I love bacon and I eat it everyday. I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted May 9, 2013 Author Share Posted May 9, 2013 +1 for: "I love bacon and I eat it everyday. I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say." Yeah, that one caught my attention too. That would be the perfect life if you could top off the bacon with a can of Coke! ;D Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compoundinglife Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 +1 for: "I love bacon and I eat it everyday. I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say." Yeah, I am pretty convinced these days that high quality animal fat is far better for your than all the highly refined vegetable base oils that are in most fast and frozne food now at days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matjone Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 It's funny in the past year or so I have seen a lot of articles saying that sugar is poison. Sure seems to be a slow acting one on some of these people. Sad thing is people like Bloomberg are actually listening to these experts and trying to legislate how much sugar people can consume based on their research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 It's funny in the past year or so I have seen a lot of articles saying that sugar is poison. Sure seems to be a slow acting one on some of these people. Sad thing is people like Bloomberg are actually listening to these experts and trying to legislate how much sugar people can consume based on their research. This is a good presentation on sugar if memory serves me right. I haven't seen it in a couple years, but I think it gives a good overview of a lot of recent research: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matjone Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 I'm sorry but this reminds me of the South Park episode where Stan's dad tells him "son, I have SARS. There is only a 99% chance that I will survive." Sugar shouldn't be a staple food, but to call it poison seems like hyperbole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Sugar isn't poison the way arsenic is, it is more poison the way smoking tobacco is. Anything that doesn't kill many of the people that ingest it, and takes decades to kill even the people it does take out isn't really a poison. It just isn't very good for you. Take notice of the one lady that lived into her 120s who didn't give up smoking until she was 117. This does not mean that the anti smoking propaganda is full of crap, it just means that smoking will not kill everyone. Sugar consumption is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccmal Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The common theme for longevity seems to be, well,fu*k all. Plain old luck of the draw. One thing I do think seems to affect people most is chronic stress. I am not talking about acute stress from a single or a cluster of events. Rather the continuous stress levied on us by commuting, cell phones, emails, and the like. One theme of those interviewed that I can possibly come to is that they generally love what they are doing. This is certainly the case with Irving Kahn, The Pediatrician, and the foam display dude. That, and plain old luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Yeah, if you avoid all the obviously bad things, the biggest factor seems to be genetics, which is why biomedical research is our best hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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