A stressful, chaotic lifestyle can help lead to drug abuse. So what really makes people live longer? It seems likely that it is an interaction of genes, the environment and probably a third factor – luck. Reading Time: 9 minutes Exercise for at least thirty minutes every day in order to live healthier, be more active, and build your confidence. And they seemed to benefit the men more than the women – a surprising result because generally in Europe, there are five times more women centenarians than men. They concluded that there were genetic factors involved. By checking public records going back to the 19th century, researchers have reconstructed the family trees of 202 nonagenarians and centenarians. They have a similar gene to the Laron syndrome group.īack in Calabria, scientists are trying to work out exactly how much of the longevity is due to genetics and how much to environment. Meanwhile, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, there’s another group of long-lived men, Japanese-Americans. As a result, they live longer than other people in their families. The condition means that they don’t grow to more than about one metre, but it also seems to give them protection against cancer and diabetes. In one area of the country there are a number of people with the same genetic condition. For example, one group of interest lives in Ecuador. The new research into long life looks at groups of people who have a genetic connection. One such researcher is Eric Topol, who says, ‘There must be genes that explain why these individuals are protected from the aging process.’ While in the past scientists have looked at things such as diet and lifestyle for an explanation of long life, these days they are investigating genetics. When researchers ask people like this the secret of their long life, the answer is almost always to do with diet and is almost always the same: ‘I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.’ ‘A little bit, but of everything.’ ‘No smoking, no drinking.’ And of these, there are at least eight centenarians. The small village of Molochio in Calabria has about 2,000 inhabitants. These include places like Calabria in southern Italy and the island of Okinawa in Japan. There have been many scientific studies of communities where a healthy old age is typical. These are people over the age of 80 who have no diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes and have never taken medicines for these conditions. In fact, there are now so many healthy, elderly people that there’s a new term for them: the wellderly. There are already many, many people who have passed the landmark age of 100. How long will a baby born today live? 100 years? 120 years? Scientists are studying genes that could mean long life for us all. Monolingual and Multilingual Word Lists.Four Skills Placement Test Package (IELTS).Split editions teacher's book references.Multilingual and monolingual word lists.Video: Using Life Video in the Classroom.
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