How to live to 100

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Interesting exerpt from Time Magazine week of August 24, 2004:

How to Live to 100

quote: " Swedish scientists looked at the only set of

people who share genes but not lifestyle: identical

twins who were separated at birth and reared apart.

If genes were most important, you would expect the

twins to die at about the same age. In fact, they

didn't, and the average difference convinced the

scientists that only about 20% to 30% of how long we

live is genetically determined. The dominant factor

is lifestyle.

" You could have a Mercedes-Benz genes, " says Dr.

Bradley Willcox, of the Pacific Health Research

Institute in Honolulu, " but if you never change the

oil, you are not going to last as long as a Ford

Escort that you take good care of. Those who have

healthier genes and live healthier lives-those guys

really survive for a long time. "

" The disappointing news is that it requires work

and willpower. "

At least that's true for many Americans, whose

fat-and calorie-packed diets and largely exercise-free

lives are a prescription for heart disease and plenty

of other ills. For Okinawans, by contrast, the

tratitional way of life seems tailor-made for living

forever- one day at a time. -Time Magazine-

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