Longevity

	Scientists Find a Way to Make People Live for Hundreds of Years
...ing diet that extended its lifespan enormously. Longo claimed that in spite of the difference between humans and yeast cells, this method is applicable to the same breakthrough in science of human longevity. He also said that though they were far from making people live till 800 years, it is quite possible to improve people's health and extend human lifespan to 120 years now. The upper limit of human lifespan is no...
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	Life Expectancy of American Women Falls Significantly
.... He explained that the tendency seems to be characteristic for Americans, as in other countries in Western Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand there was no such decline. The decline in US men's longevity was smaller and was observed in fewer places. Scientists say that downfall of life expectancy over long periods is driven by huge factors, such as AIDS epidemic in Africa or social disturbances like the collapse...
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	Japanese Women Are the Longest Living in the World
...008, showing the life expectancy of 86 years, Japan's health ministry reported. Japanese girls born in 2007 can expect to live to an age of 86 years old, ranking the first in the list of the world' longevity for 23 years. Japanese boys will have an average life expectancy of 79,2, following Iceland and Hong Kong males. The longer life expectancy of Japanese women is explained by such factors as healthier diets and c...
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	Want to Live Longer - Get a Second Wife
...in their 60s and even 80s. Scientists consider that such ability can explain why men live long. Together with her colleague Andy Russell, Lummaa tried to find other factors that could explain the longevity of men, such as grandfather effect. In order to test this possibility, researchers analyzed records for 25,000 Finns that lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. These records were preserved by local churches. Mos...
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