FRIDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- If current life expectancy trends continue, more than half of babies born in rich nations since 2000 will live to 100 years of age, and they'll have less disability than elderly people in previous generations. That's the conclusion of researchers who found that increases in life expectancy evident in rich nations since 1840 show no signs of slowing. "The linear increase in record life expectancy for more than 165 years does not suggest a looming limit to human lifespan. If life expectancy were approaching a limit, some deceleration of progress would probably occur. Continued progress in the longest living populations suggests that we are not close to a limit, and further rise in life expectancy seems likely," Kaare Christensen, of the Danish Aging Research Center at the University of Southern Denmark, and colleagues wrote. Their study appears online Oct. 1 in The Lancet. During the 20th century, huge increases in life expectancy (30 years or more) occurred in developed nations. Even if health conditions don't improve, 75 percent of babies born in rich nations since 2000 can expect to live to 75, the researchers concluded. Their analysis of data from more than 30 developed countries revealed that death rates among people older than 80 are still falling. In 1950, the likelihood of survival from age 80 to 90 was 15 percent to 16 percent for women and 12 percent for men, compared with 37 percent and 25 percent, respectively, in 2002. Source and full story
LOL so true...but if they wont be much of a problem now that australia is the fattest country.. I think were considered a rich country, our dollar is close to the US again so i think so...coupled with us being the fattest country now...WE WILL OFFSET THE EARTHS ORBIT BEFORE US!! HAH we beat the US at something again-batman!!!!
With the new healthy more conscious consumers, the whole going green choice of living might meet more people living longer. Still as of right now, many U.S people are still pretty fat. And if you saw Zombieland than you know the rules, Fat people will be one of the first to go.
survival of the fittest, 肥人當道-shrug ahhhhh we're the 90s ppl but lookin at my life line on my palm i should reach at least 90 lols
I still am a believer of quality over quantity. If you are still healthy at that age than it's all good but a lot of people at that age have tons of physical issues that might need help from other people. I don't like that feeling of helplessness and relied on others.
i say live life to the fullest .. eat what you like and want as long as you do so in good healthy portion .. eat bacon, etc... just eat one or two ... you're fine. i know ppl who had lived HEALTHY all their lives dying from accidents and illnesses so yeah .. just cuz research predicts that don't mean you'll live that long .. who know .. we may be hit a by some cosmic storm or whatever that might just blow up the earth .. hahahah .. everyone dies .. lol
