The improvement that shouldn’t be Aging is far more complex than simply wearing out body tissue. Yet with rising life expectancy, we are at greater risk of using up savings, not cells © Plainpicture The improvement that shouldn’t be Aging is far more complex than simply wearing out body tissue. Yet with rising life expectancy, we are at greater risk of using up savings, not cells Related articles Related articles Breeding misconceptions One of the problems with “insert prejudice here” is that they breed like rabbits. Or do they? Outliving our bodies’ warranty Death was handed a rain check in the 20th century, metaphorically speaking. While life expectancy probably averaged around 20 years during the last 130,000 years, something remarkable occurred within the last century A matter of lifestyle Why do women, monks and nuns all live longer than men in the general population? The answer is lifestyle, says demographer Marc Luy. Remember your first kiss? Mary, an Australian centenarian, certainly does and it is surprising how vivid and instantaneous memories can be. But to recall some of the earliest, ever more of us, like Mary, will be reaching back through a century of time rather than mere decades
Breeding misconceptions One of the problems with “insert prejudice here” is that they breed like rabbits. Or do they?
Outliving our bodies’ warranty Death was handed a rain check in the 20th century, metaphorically speaking. While life expectancy probably averaged around 20 years during the last 130,000 years, something remarkable occurred within the last century
A matter of lifestyle Why do women, monks and nuns all live longer than men in the general population? The answer is lifestyle, says demographer Marc Luy.
Remember your first kiss? Mary, an Australian centenarian, certainly does and it is surprising how vivid and instantaneous memories can be. But to recall some of the earliest, ever more of us, like Mary, will be reaching back through a century of time rather than mere decades
