Comments on: Centenarians on why they lived so long

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 11 May 2013 06:06:56 +0000

George Pal Says: May 10th, 2013 at 2:11 pm

Bacon, port, smoking, and cocktails! Time to update that food pyramid.

The science is settled. And this never gets old.

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Sat, 11 May 2013 05:21:12 +0000

At the Store Where I Work, we have a considerable Vitamins/Health Supplements section. The range of dietary products is mindboggling, truly. And the customers who haunt that section are frankly depressing. They are so convinced that if they just take the right array of pills, powders and extracts, they’ll somehow overcome any possible ailment and live longer.

I feel sorry for them. They’d be better off taking a clue from those centenarians whose common theme seems to be expressed by Lila Denmark, “You keep on doing what you do best as long as you can,” and Iriving Kahn, “I don’t worry about dying.”

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:14:46 +0000

No way I’m gonna read about what statistical deviants attribute their deviancy to. A fool’s game.

Lurch: what if God grants you your wish sooner rather than later? It happens. At what age and in what condition do you wish to leave this life? Suddenly, without notice, or of a slow process? At age 59, 69. or 79? Reflect on the fact that you get to choose the timing and means of exit only via suicide.
Don’t be too stuck on three score and ten…that was in 1865.

By: JJ formerly Jimmy J.

JJ formerly Jimmy J. — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:37:18 +0000

My maternal grandmother lived to be 100. She was very tightly wound, emotionally. Never a day went by without her worrying or fretting about any number of things. She was overweight, did little exercise beyond housework, ate few vegetables or fruits, but was neither a smoker or drinker. I think it was the worrying that kept her going. Or something.

By: Lurch

Lurch — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:43:17 +0000

But doesn’t this beg the question “Would you even WANT to live to 100?” Growing old isn’t for wimps and I must be one. No way do I want to live that long.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:26:19 +0000

The common denominator seems to be a positive emotional state (content, happy, in control, purposeful) with a strong ability to defeat stress.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:11:13 +0000

Bacon, port, smoking, and cocktails! Time to update that food pyramid.

By: waltj

waltj — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:05:21 +0000

I once knew an older fellow in Germany, probably in his mid-80s back then. I asked him his secret to long life, and he replied, “Schnapps. I drink a bottle every day”. Every day?, I asked, incredulous. “Ja”, he answered, “but I drink it all day long”. Ah, so that’s the key: never allow any blood into your alcohol system.