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Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
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| I smell a lawsuit in the air... |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 18-09-2011 19:20 Post subject: |
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| Mr Cage played a vampire (of sorts) in Vampire's Kiss. The one where he actually ate a cockroach on camera. Maybe he was drawing on his centuries of experience? |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 27-03-2012 22:08 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 35% of babies today may live to 100, but age will bring its trials
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0327/1224313954214.html
SAM JONES and MAEV KENNEDY
Tue, Mar 27, 2012
MORE THAN a third of the babies born in Britain this year could receive a 100th birthday message from whoever happens to be on the throne in the second decade of the 22nd century, according to figures published yesterday by the Office for National Statistics. The office forecasts that 35 per cent of the 826,000 people born in 2012 will live to become centenarians.
In its latest report, entitled What are the Chances of Surviving to Age 100?, the office examines the births of 423,000 boys and 403,000 girls this year. It estimates that 135,000 of the boys and 156,000 of the girls could still be alive in 2112.
A long life is not unalloyed good news. David Sinclair, head of policy and research at the International Longevity Centre UK, warned that for many the future might mean social isolation as they outlive friends and family, physical isolation as they are trapped in unsuitable housing, and poor health.
“It is of course good news that so many more people are living longer,” he said, “but there is a big but. In many ways, today’s centenarians are unrepresentative. They are people who have escaped cancer, heart attack and stroke and so they are actually healthier than many people younger than them. Now that we are getting so much better at keeping people alive, that will no longer be the case. We will be older, but in worse health, and at high risk of living alone in unsuitable accommodation.
“The other problem is that we are very poor at forward planning. We deal with the problems that are under our noses . . . When you’re talking about forecasts for a time half a century away and more, I see no evidence that we are putting in place the measures.”
The news for those turning 65 this year hoping to make it to the same milestone is less heartening: only 10 per cent of men and 14 per cent of women born in 1947 will make it to 100. Women have higher life expectancies at every age; the estimated number of female centenarians has risen from 500 in 1961 to more than 10,000 in 2010. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-04-2012 11:54 Post subject: |
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Equality at last.
| Quote: | Men set to live as long as women, figures show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17811732
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News
Men could be living as long as women
Related Stories
Can we live forever?
UK life expectancy 'on the rise'
Third of babies 'to live to 100'
The gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could catch up by 2030, according to an adviser for the Office for National Statistics.
Prof Les Mayhew said the difference between the sexes peaked at nearly six years in the 1970s.
Life expectancy is going up all round, but the rates for men are increasing faster.
Plummeting smoking rates in men are thought to explain a lot of the change.
Prof Mayhew, a professor of statistics at Cass Business School, analysed life expectancy data in England and Wales. He was working out how long 30-year-olds could expect to live.
Heart disease
His findings show men languishing far behind for decades, but now starting to get closer to women. If current trends continue, Prof Mayhew predicts, both sexes could, on average, be living to the age of 87 in 2030.
He said: "What's interesting at the moment is that in the last 20 years or so, male life expectancy at 30 has jumped by about six years and if it jumps by the same amount in the next 20 years it will converge with female life expectancy."
The reason could be down to men living a healthier lifestyle. "One of the main reasons, I think, is the trend in the prevalence of smoking. Smoking took off after 1920 in the male population and at its high about 80% of males smoked.
Fewer male smokers may be boosting overall life expectancy
"This was reflected in more divergence in the life expectancy, so by the time you get to about 1970 it was at its peak - the difference in life expectancy was about 5.7 years."
Other factors are thought to be safer, more office-based, jobs. Millions of men used to work in hazardous occupations such as coal mining. Healthcare has meant more men live longer as well. People with heart disease, which is more common in men, can expect to live much longer than they did a few decades ago.
By contrast, women started smoking later than men. Rates of lung cancer are still increasing in women, but are falling fast in men.
A boy and a girl born on the same day will still not have the same life expectancies, as the study looked only at people who had already reached 30. Boys are more likely to die in their first year of life and are more likely to take up dangerous sports or be involved in fatal accidents.
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Men are getting a bit better behaved”
Prof David Leon
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
It means that women could still have the edge for some time to come.
Global pattern
Prof David Leon, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "In virtually all countries in the world, women do have a slight advantage."
However, he said the gap was definitely closing in some countries.
Countries with lower levels of life expectancy, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, showed very little difference between the genders. This was due to the prevalence of infectious diseases which "are not picky about men and women", he said.
In countries that had defeated most infectious diseases, such as in Eastern Europe, "there is a much bigger difference, mostly dominated by lifestyle factors".
At one point in the 1990s, the gap between life expectancies in Russia reached 13 years. Prof Leon said it was an "absolutely massive" difference in a "very gendered society".
In his third class of countries, such as the UK, the gap in life expectancies is starting to narrow.
He said: "Men are getting a bit better behaved and women are adopting male life expectancies." |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-12-2012 13:46 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Olympian lifespan 'possible for all'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20710388
Cyclists were among the athletes who enjoyed the best health
Male manual workers 'live longer'
The longevity Olympians enjoy is within the reach of everyone, experts say.
Research published on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website suggests athletes live 2.8 years longer on average than the average lifespan.
The research indicated those who took part in non-contact sports such as cycling, rowing and tennis enjoyed the longest life of all.
But the general population could have a similar "survival advantage" by doing a little more exercise, experts said.
The conclusion by two public health professors came after they reviewed two studies of Olympic athletes published by the BMJ website.
The studies looked at the lifespan and health of 25,000 athletes who competed in Games dating back to 1896.
Those taking part in contact sports such as boxing had the least advantage, while cyclists and rowers enjoyed the best health.
But the researchers also found those who played lower intensity sports such as golf enjoyed a boost.
'Public health failure'
Possible explanations put forward for the finding included genetic and lifestyle factors and the wealth and status that comes with sporting success.
However, the findings prompted public health experts Prof Adrian Bauman, from Australia's Sydney University, and Prof Steven Blair, from South Carolina University in the US, to suggest others could live as long as Olympic athletes.
The recommended level of physical activity for adults is 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise each week.
Studies suggest people who manage that amount or more live for up to several years longer than those that do not.
Writing for the BMJ website, the professors said: "Although the evidence points to a small survival effect of being an Olympian, careful reflection suggests that similar health benefits and longevity could be achieved by all of us through regular physical activity.
"We could and should all award ourselves that personal gold medal."
But they said governments were still not doing enough to promote the benefits of physical activity, calling it a "public health failure". |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-02-2013 22:03 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | NO for longevity — new evidence
By: CLIO
Published: February 21, 2013
Chemistry World reports today:
“Since 2005, a controversy has been raging about the role of nitric oxide (NO) in increasing the lifespan of various organisms. Now, US researchers may have direct evidence for NO’s apparent special powers, at least in the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.”
“the longevity debate was started by a 2005 Science paper by Enzo Nisoli and colleagues at Milan University. They reported that organisms – including yeasts and mice – on low calorie diets increased their production of NO.1 This kind of calorie restriction had already been shown to extend life above the average. Nisoli’s team’s claim was that, because NO plays such an important role in the body, its production in a calorie restricted organism may indicate that NO was involved in the lifespan extension effect in mammals.”
“Although an extremely toxic gas, even at concentrations as low as 80ppm, dissolved NO performs crucial signalling roles in the human body. It dilates blood vessels, controls hair growth and is involved in penile erection. The immune system uses NO as a signalling molecule, and, as one of the few free radicals present in our body, it also deploys it to kill bacteria. The 1998 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was given to researchers for figuring out how this gas worked in the body.”
See http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/02/no-longevity-nitric-oxide |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 16-09-2013 00:07 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Longevitize!
By: Franco Cortese
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/09/04/longevitize/
Containing more than 160 essays from over 40 contributors, this edited volume of essays on the science, philosophy and politics of longevity considers the project of ending aging and abolishing involuntary death-by-disease from a variety of viewpoints: scientific, technological, philosophical, pragmatic, artistic. In it you will find not only information on the ways in which science and medicine are bringing about the potential to reverse aging and defeat death within many of our own lifetimes, as well as the ways that you can increase your own longevity today in order to be there for tomorrow’s promise, but also a glimpse at the art, philosophy and politics of longevity as well – areas that will become increasingly important as we realize that advocacy, lobbying and activism can play as large a part in the hastening of progress in indefinite lifespans as science and technology can.
The collection is edited by Franco Cortese. Its contributing authors include William H. Andrews, Ph.D., Rachel Armstrong, Ph.D., Jonathan Betchtel, Yaniv Chen, Clyde DeSouza, Freija van Diujne, Ph.D., John Ellis, Ph.D., Linda Gamble, Roen Horn, the International Longevity Alliance (ILA), Zoltan Istvan, David Kekich (President & C.E.O of Maximum Life Foundation), Randal A. Koene, Ph.D., Maria Konovalenko, M.Sc. (Program Coordinator for the Science for Life Extension Foundation), Marios Kyriazis, MD, M.Sc MIBiol, CBiol (Founder of the ELPIs Foundation for Indefinite Lifespans and the medical advisor for the British Longevity Society), John R. Leonard (Director of Japan Longevity Alliance), Alex Lightman, Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE), Josh Mitteldorf, Ph.D., Tom Mooney (Executive Director of the Coalition to Extend Life), Max More, Ph.D. , B.J. Murphy, Joern Pallensen, Dick Pelletier, Hank Pellissier (Founder of Brighter Brains Institute), Giulio Prisco, Marc Ransford, Jameson Rohrer, Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D., MBA, JD., Peter Rothman (editor of H+ Magazine), Giovanni Santostasi, Ph.D (Director of Immortal Life Magazine, Eric Schulke, Jason Silva , R.U. Sirius, Ilia Stambler, Ph.D (activist at the International Longevity Alliance), G. Stolyarov II (editor-in-chief of The Rational Argumentator), Winslow Strong, Jason Sussberg, Violetta Karkucinska, David Westmorland, Peter Wicks, Ph.D, and Jason Xu (director of Longevity Party China and Longevity Party Taiwan). |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Centenarians increase five-fold over 30 years, ONS says
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24300051
Sheila Storer, from south Wales, turned 100 on the day her great-granddaughter was born this month
The number of centenarians in England and Wales has increased five-fold over the last 30 years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Its estimates suggest there were 12,320 people aged 100 or older in 2012, with more than 600 of these aged over 105.
The newly published figures also suggest the population of over-90s - a group the ONS calls the "very old" - increased by 33% from 2002 to 2012.
Last year they numbered 465,000, almost 1% of the population, the ONS said.
Death data
The figures suggest there were 2.6 women for every man aged over 90, and 5.9 women for every man over 100.
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Centenarians in England and Wales
1982 - 2,560
1992 - 4,460
2002 - 7,090
2012 - 12,320
Source: ONS estimates
In 1981 there were an estimated 2,420 centenarians in England and Wales, and that figure increased to 7,090 in 2002.
The estimated number of over-90s was 157,390 in 1981 and 350,700 in 2002.
Estimates are produced by using "age-at-death" data. By analysing the ages and locations of people at death, the ONS estimates the number of people alive at a certain age in a certain area.
The figures are revised as more death data is received, and the most recent estimates are based on deaths in the last five years.
The ONS produces the figures for uses including research, pension and healthcare planning, parliamentary questions and media enquiries. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
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The chap next door to my father told me he will be 90 in the new year.
He says that though he is slowing down he still feels very young.
Last week he was helping his son fix the porch. |
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