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CENTENARIANS

CENTENARIANS. US POPULATION. YOUR CHANCES.

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CENTENARIANS

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  1. CENTENARIANS

  2. US POPULATION

  3. YOUR CHANCES • Assuming that there are 300 million U.S. Citizens, the chances of someone becoming a centenarian is 1:4 thousand (~80,000 US centenarians today); on the other hand, the chances of someone becoming a Supercentenarian is only 1:4 million. Three orders of magnitude is a big difference!

  4. OTHER ACTIVITIES PERFORMED BY CENTENARIANS • TEACHING • PERFORMING SURGERY • WORKING • GARDENING • RUNNING MARATHONS • DANCING • ETC ETC ETC

  5. HOT SPOTS FOR LONGEVITY • Orroli, Italy (small town in Sardinia) • Islands of Okinawa, Japan • Seventh-Day Adventist community in Loma Linda, California according to a study funded by National Institute on Aging reported in National Geographic November 2005

  6. SUPERCENTENARIANS(have attained the age of 110 or more) As of March 1, 2008, there are 81 documented supercentenarians in the world - 70 females and 11 males Los Angeles Gerontological Research Group www.grg.org

  7. SUPERCENTENARIAN COUNT

  8. 113 YEARS OLD

  9. NATURE VS NURTURE • Could it be genetic? Is it connected to the Y chromosome? In Sardinia, the ratio of centenarians is 1:1 as opposed to 4:1 in rest of world. Do they share a hormonal pattern on Okinawa? • Could it be lifestyle? Is it diet? Okinawans eat a low fat, high fish diet including fruit & vegetables and they exercise. Is it spirituality? The Seventh-Day Adventist group is a spiritual community and does not eat meat

  10. COULD YOU LIVE TO BE OVER 100? • ACTIVE BODY eating well, exercising your body • ACTIVE MIND learning new things, exercising your mind • SPIRITUAL CONNECTION • STRONG FAMILY TIES relationships with people

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