For those people who are not participating in the obesity epidemic or otherwise sabotaging their prospects for long-term health, remaining life expectancy at any given adult age is slowly increasing over time. Each generation could expect to live a few years longer than the prior generation. We live in an age of technological progress in the life sciences, and so the state of medicine advances to ever greater capabilities, even given the ball and chain of excessive regulatory costs. That said, we do have the choice to live better or live worse, and those choices do have an impact regardless of the technological environment we find ourselves in. This open access paper put…
Better Lifestyle Choices in Late Life Correlate with Better Odds of Becoming a Centenarian
For those people who are not participating in the obesity epidemic or otherwise sabotaging their prospects for long-term health, remaining life expectancy at any given adult age is slowly increasing over time. Each generation could expect to live a few years longer than the prior generation. We live in an age of technological progress in the life sciences, and so the state of medicine advances to ever greater capabilities, even given the ball and chain of excessive regulatory costs. That said, we do have the choice to live better or live worse, and those choices do have an impact regardless of the technological environment we find ourselves in. This open access paper put…