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- I love to drink tea and coffee. I am not sure how this habit is going affect. But i do believe in "If you have a healthy body you generally have a healthy mind and they go well together."
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- Living to be 90 or 100 is not my main goal. Having a healthy life is.
We all must to go to make room for more humans to be born... and finish destroying this beautiful planet. - Reply to this comment
- People over 100 will go from 70,000 to over 4 million by 2050. That is a big deal, 7 billion people now on the planet, 9 billion by 2050 and people living longer.
We need to find ways to accommodate that trend, or humans will be in a bind with scarce resources and wealth imbalance. The best time to start correcting for that is NOW. - Reply to this comment
- I'm amazed that these people think being married alleviates stress. It shot their whole argument in the rear end. And now we have some gay commentor who has never been married who thinks this is a great reason to get married. Somebody save me from bad science and self-serving agendas.
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- Yes, that's why some of the old cars still have "EAT HONEY" bumperstickers on their bumpers.
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- They can't help us live longer if they're disappearing, and they are. As the bee goes, so go we all.
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- "To bee or not to bee..." Seriously, a very interesting article. I have read others like it that point out how people are socilaized into aging, much like the bee that is socially induced to becomes a forager. Human society then is not unlike a bee hive in that at a certain point, people are shunted out of the mainstream. Some societies defy this rigid, scripted pheonomenon and as a result people are happy and productive into their advanced years. As it generally is though, it takes a bit af a maverick to fight against this process and remain a vibrant and productive individual.
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- Certainly we want to live as long as possible; I'm not in any hurry to die. Living to be 100 is an amazing thought, and the 101 gentleman in this piece was in excellent shape. If I was in that condition at 101, I'd love it. But - if at 80, I'm parked in a nursing home, only sit sit around and mess myself, then I think it's time for the show to end for me. Longevity is a great thing - if you have a decent quality of life. The other consideration is the entire ecosystem. If we all start living to 100, what does that do to the planet? Can Earth support the load? We have to be realistic about this. It isn't just a matter of 4 million people living much much longer. Life has a natural cycle which shouldn't really be tampered with. If you extend your life naturally by taking good care of yourself, great. If, on the other hand, science does manage to come up with a magic fountain of youth, it could be destructive to humans as a whole.
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- The bee sting therapy was announced 25 years ago for those who suffered arthritis. I used to get stung by bees working out in the woods and made the link between bee stings and dramatic reduction in back pain. Two neighbors of mine made a link in bee stings with improving their will power to stop chewing tobacco and smoking. When the winter comes and bees become dormant, we found it extremely difficult to help ourselves out of resisting bad habits and suffering less. Today, I often find bees and pick them up off the ground with their wings and play with them.
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- And medical technology! I think it's amazing that they can fix your rundown parts with stem cells, sometimes even your own! I saw an article, complete with pic, of a man who had a bad heart valve, they took his own stem cells and injected them directly into his valve and it repaired it completely!! I think this will become as commonplace as giving blood and saving your units in the future and people will just go in for a "tune up" now and then to replace failing parts! Heck, we could end up being as old as Methusala!! I do believe lifestyle and genetics play an important part too. In my case, I don't know which way I am gonna go as their is longevity on my Mom's side but everyone died young on my Dad's!! I seem to take after Mom's side more tho as I am 63, am very healthy, am not on any perscription drugs at all, and still smoke! I do watch my diet and hardly ever eat red meat! I do eat lots of healthy choice and lean cuisine meals and eat lots of fish, leafy green veggies, nuts, and even buy butter and eggs that have Omega 3! I gave up pop and lost 12# but still could stand to lose another 20! I am retired but fairly active. My bp, cholesterol,heart,lungs, kidneys and liver are all fine. Only thing that's a little high is my sugar but they call me "mildly" diabetic and told me to just watch what I eat. I don't have to take meds for it!
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