wanna live long?

an interesting article on the long lived

Below are some excerpts.

facts?
"... diet, exercise, health habits, social support and the ability to find meaning in life appear to play a role in getting people to, say, 85. But, some of them say, they suspect that genes play the dominant role in hitting 100 or above."

the funny parts-
...“I have a 104-year-old lady who’s been smoking for 95 years,” he (Dr. Barzilai, professor of medicine and molecular genetics) said. “Her response is, ‘Every doctor who told me to stop is now dead.’ ”

... “I have no one that was exercising,” said Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who is studying 400 centenarians. “I don’t have vegetarians. Nobody ate yogurt or anything like that. ...”
(Looks like I am on the right track in hitting 100!)

reality check-
...“The longer the person lives, the more generations you have to deal with and the more your own future becomes an issue,” said Roberta Satow, a sociologist at Brooklyn College and the author of a book on caring for parents. “We have 70-year-olds taking care of their 90- and 100-year-old parents. Those 70-year-olds are worried about what they’re going to have if they’re spending the money on Mom and Dad.”