For the study, Boston University researchers did phone interviews and health assessments of more than 500 women and 200 men who had reached 100. They found that roughly two-thirds of them had avoided significant age-related ailments.
But the rest, dubbed "survivors," had developed an age-related disease before reaching 85, including high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes. Yet many functioned remarkably well -- nearly as well as their disease-free peers.
I think this a call to seek healthy lives, especially when our bodies throw a wrench into the process.
__________________ David
Co-Founder of DailyHealth.net
In the nitty gritty daily grind, I think we often lose sight of how resilient we are. The human body is an amazing machine and it can survive a lot more stress than we think.
The average guy has a heart beat of 80 beats per minute. Over a 100 year life span, your heart will beat 4,204,800,000 times. That's a lot of beats!
__________________ David
Co-Founder of DailyHealth.net
think I may go a little more careful and try not to get any more problems :)
