Saturday, 13 December, 2008
Yeshiva University recently published a study which suggested regularly attending religious services reduced the risk of death by approximately 20%. This study was a subsidiary of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI).
The researchers at Yeshiva University-Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, evaluated the religious practices of 92,395 post-menopausal (PMP) women aged 50-79 and their subsequent health related outcomes as cardiovascular disease and mortality.
The women were asked three questions:
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Thursday, 24 April, 2008
Are you a Baby Boomer, pre-retiree or a person who has retired from long time employment and now find yourself in a transitional period– confused and thinking about what you are going to do with your life? ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ Lifestyle practices are paramount to living long and living well.
Where do people live longest? In the Blue Zones.
The Blue Zones include Loma Linda, California, Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, Sardinia, Italy, and Okinawa, Japan. Panchita Castillo, whose picture appears above, lives in Nicoya and is a centenarian. Watch the daily activities of Panchita on video here.
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Wednesday, 2 April, 2008
Last night, 04/01/08, ABC aired ’Live To 150. Can You Do It?’ with Barbara Walters as hostess. Longevity, of course, was the overall topic of the show. I had heard, read or seen videos previously, of the individual topics that were presented on living a long life. The BBC News Discovery presented a program on living to age 150. Last night the topics included genomes, preserving or freezing of the body, resveratrol medication, calorie and fat restricted diets, tissue regeneration and centenarians. Watch the video and find out how these centenarians are living to the fullest.
My first thought brought a smile to my face and a chuckle….that being, Barbara Walters was publicly admitting, on national television, to being a card carrying member of AARP and interested in a much longer lifetime.
On a much deeper level, I wondered about those folks who spent $75, 000 to have their bodies preserved and be ‘awakened’ centuries from now. What happens to the ‘pain body’ that Eckhart Tolle wrote about in A New Earth? Will they have to resolve the pain before they can get on with their new life in another era of time? WOW!
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