An article, Get Rich or Die Younger: The Shrinking Lifes Spans of Poor U.S. Women, includes the following 2 conclusions… Among men older than 55, life expectancies are growing fastest for the rich. Among women older than 55, life expectancies are growing for the rich and shrinking for the poor. Being female, and being poor,…
Do you want to live longer and be healthier? Then sit less than 3 hours a day – and when you do sit – sit with better posture. Recent research shows that sitting for long periods of time is unhealthy and that sitting for fewer than 3 hours a day may add up to…
I muse and I also just turned 70 – so this is a new [and very strange] topic for my musings…. 1 – 70 is an age I never thought about when I was “younger” because it seemed so “old.” But then when I was in my 20’s I used to think 30 was old. …
I have recently been reading a lot of research on topics related to the lifespan – mainly as I am teaching that class. The ones that stick in my mind are those related to obesity. We are becoming such an obese country that the airplanes are widening seats and now children’s safety seat makers are…