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Human longevity has improved so rapidly over the past century that 72 is the new 30, scientists say.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, said progress in lowering the odds of death at all ages has been so rapid since 1900 that life expectancy has risen faster than it did in the previous 200 millennia since modern man began to evolve from hominid species.
Hoping everyone feels it today. Not sure with this rain and cold weather if I am 100% on board today
Most of my relatives born in the 1800's lived to 90.
The one aunt that died from the flu in 1929 at the age of 31 and the one uncle who died from pneumonia in 1938 at the age of 36 brings down the life expectancy.
Nearly all my relatives who reached 40 lived til 90.
Haha, I know of a writer who's written a book called "Thirteen is the New Eighteen." Funny how the younger generation is going forward and we are going backward – maybe we will all meet in the middle!
Haha, I know of a writer who's written a book called "Thirteen is the New Eighteen." Funny how the younger generation is going forward and we are going backward – maybe we will all meet in the middle!
The pace of increase in life expectancy has left industrialized economies unprepared for the cost of providing retirement income to so many for so long.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, looked at Swedish and Japanese men – two countries with the longest life expectancy today. It concluded that their counterparts in 1800 would have had lifespans that were closer to those of the earliest hunter-gatherer humans than they would to adult men in both countries today.
Those primitive hunter gatherers, at age 30, had the same odds of dying as a modern Swedish or Japanese man would face at 72.
Unprepared for the cost of providing retirement income for an increase in life span over the past 213 years? Wonder what that bit of insightful research cost the world?
I'm 69. I certainly don't feel physically as good as I did at 30 or even close. But mentally I'm just as good or better plus I've learned a great deal more that aids me in making decisions.
Given a choice I'll take mental.
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