Predictors of Reaching 100 Years Old :A Quiz

Predictors of Reaching 100 Years Old..How To Live A Long Life.. A Quiz

Let’s Examine Who Lives to Be One Hundred and More Years Old and How Scientists Think They Do It

Just ask Phil Rabinowitz, the 100 year old who set a record in the 100 meter sprint,for his age group. It's a dream as old as mankind. Ponce De Leon sailed to the new world and searched to no avail for the fountain of youth.

Philip Rabinowitz is Officially the World’s Fastest Centenarian

World Record falls to Flying Phil, aged 100

According to the Census Bureau there are more than 40,000 Americans older than 100 years of age and it predicts between 106,000 and 204,000 by the year 2010. Centenarians in the United States 100-year-old: Try cold showers for long life

.. There are places in the world where many people have reached very old age..places like Okinawa, Japan and Loma Linda,California. Scientists have been studying these people to glean the secrets of their success.

Select Which of the Following Behaviors or Characteristics are Associated With Living to 100 Plus Years.

1. Click the letter before the answer... According to scientists at The New England Centenarian Study What is true about women who reach 100 years old ?

   They are not likely to have given birth after the age of forty

   They are likely to have given birth after the age of thirty

   A woman who had a child naturally after forty is as likely as other women to reach 100

   A woman who had a child naturally after forty is as four times as likely as other women to reach 100

2. The Okinawa Centenarian Program said the centenarians they studied did which of the following?

   The elderly Okinawans tended to eat alot

   Elderly Okinawans tended to push alot into their lives, were usually in a hurry and stuffed their lives full

   Elderly Okinawans tend to eat meat,fish,soy,vegatables and fruits

   
   
   The Oldest Living Ziegfeld Girl
   
   Discount for 100-Year-Old Driver
   
   

3. According to the New England Centenarian Study which of the following characterize the very elderly?

   Many centenarians are obese.

   Stress is not a factor in determing longevity

   Living to a very old age tends to run in families

Resources and More Information About Living to One Hundred and Beyond

The Okinawa Centenarian Study

The New England Centennarian Study

Fabric of a Long Life

A Look at Centenarians...

CNN Report on Long Life



The secrets to longevity

VIDEO excerpt of the very old in Okinawa

Professor says living to 100 is possible with healthy lifestyle

Live To Be A Centenarian

Video about The Okinawa Centenarian Study

Want To Live Forever

Recipe for a Long Life

How to Live to 100

Scientists discover cellular 'fountain of youth'