longevity

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There are some excellent articles as well as hundreds of research papers on

various antiaging therapies. Not sure if there's any thing in regard to

caloric restriction but it might be worth your search to take a look.

 

Home page: www.lef.org

 

<A HREF= " http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2001/apr2001_awsi.html " >LEF article:

Can We Control Aging - Disease - Death...</A>

 

Happy holidays to all,

 

Kandi

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Wayne,

You sound like you may have already read this one :

 

http://www.healthpromoting.com/Articles/articles/expect.htm

 

The last part of the article :

The number of Americans who could expect to live to age 60 in 1830 was

only one-third. By 1900 it was one-half. By 1940 it increased to

two-thirds. And today, the number who survives to age 60 is over 80%.

 

People are still dying prematurely, compared to what is believed to be

our genetically determined maximum life span. But what we are dying from

has changed greatly.

 

 

 

Causes of Death

Acute disease processes, such as tuberculosis (TB), predominated in

1840. In 1900 the death rate from TB was 194 per 100,000. By 1925 it had

dropped to half that number. By 1940 it had been cut in half again. By

the time the drug streptomycin was introduced in the late 1940s, more

than 90% of the TB cases had already been eliminated. Deaths from all

acute diseases declined more than 98% in the first 80 years of this

century.

 

Credit for the decline in TB and other acute disease processes cannot be

claimed by proponents of modern medicine. The decline came about

primarily because of improved housing, sanitation, nutrition, and other

lifestyle measures introduced by the early hygienists, most of whom were

disenchanted medical doctors-and other health reformers.

 

With the virtual elimination of acute conditions resulting in death,

there has been a shift in the recorded causes of death. Today, chronic

conditions are the predominant cause. Atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetes,

arthritis, emphysema, and cirrhosis cause more than 80% of deaths and

90% of disability.

 

Obviously, any attempt at life extension must include a plan to delay,

minimize, avoid, or eliminate these chronic degenerative disease

processes. Since Natural Hygiene places emphasis on removing the causes

of disease and on supplying the requirements of health, including the

areas of diet, environment, activity and psychology (DEAP), it offers us

the greatest plan and opportunity for a long and vital life and a chance

to fulfill our full biological potential.

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