living to 100
Kids today will be tomorrow's centenarians. A new report says that up to 100 years to become the most normal American children since 2000. How can they live in a century of influence on children? What about the quality of life awaits those who live so long?
Japan now has the world's longest life expectancy — 83 years for babies born in 2007, according to the World Health Organization. The U.S. life expectancy is 77.9 years for babies born in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of people age 100 or over in the United States has doubled since 1990 and is 16 times the number of centenarians in 1950. According to the U.S. Census, there were an estimated 96,548 centenarians in the United States as of November 2009.
Kids today will be tomorrow's centenarians. A new report says that up to 100 years to become the most normal American children since 2000. How can they live in a century of influence on children? What about the quality of life awaits those who live so long?
Japan now has the world's longest life expectancy — 83 years for babies born in 2007, according to the World Health Organization. The U.S. life expectancy is 77.9 years for babies born in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of people age 100 or over in the United States has doubled since 1990 and is 16 times the number of centenarians in 1950. According to the U.S. Census, there were an estimated 96,548 centenarians in the United States as of November 2009.
A variation in a gene called FOXO3A is more often found in people and 100 more, according to a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences earlier this year. Genet is credited with a longer lifetime for some, but researchers say other factors are involved, too.
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