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Longevity gene and heart disease
A recent study of children of centenarians shows they have a 78 percent lower risk for a heart attack, an 83 percent lower risk for a stroke, and an 86 percent lower risk for developing diabetes.
As one might expect, this genetic predisposition doesn't protect for all diseases... things like cancer, dementia, depression, macular degeneration & osteoporosis.
So, if you have parents who lived to be a hundred, you might be a bit better off genetically than the rest of us. Count your lucky genes & be happy.
As one might expect, this genetic predisposition doesn't protect for all diseases... things like cancer, dementia, depression, macular degeneration & osteoporosis.
So, if you have parents who lived to be a hundred, you might be a bit better off genetically than the rest of us. Count your lucky genes & be happy.
Funny Intro
Hi! I just joined and want to introduce myself with this appropriate riddle:
How do you live to be 100????
Okay, I'm hesitant to just give you the answer right away. I'll see if anyone responds and then post the answer tomorrow.
Blessings!
How do you live to be 100????
Okay, I'm hesitant to just give you the answer right away. I'll see if anyone responds and then post the answer tomorrow.
Blessings!
World's 'oldest man' dies in India
Habib Miyan played the clarinet in a maharajah's orchestra before retiring 70 years ago.
However, there is much dispute over his actual age. Although he said he was 138 years old, his pension book showed him to be a mere stripling at 129 - and the Guinness Book of Records has been unable to verify his age at all.
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However, there is much dispute over his actual age. Although he said he was 138 years old, his pension book showed him to be a mere stripling at 129 - and the Guinness Book of Records has been unable to verify his age at all.
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New drugs to treat aging
Expect new drugs to treat aging, researchers say Resveratrol, substance found in red wine, benefits health
By DAVID HO
Is 90 the new 50?
Not yet, aging researchers say, but medical breakthroughs to significantly extend life and ease the ailments of getting older are closer than many people think.
"The general public has no idea what's coming," said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor who has made headlines with research into the health benefits of a substance found in red wine called resveratrol.
Speaking on a panel of aging experts, Sinclair had the boldest predictions. He said scientists can greatly increase longevity and improve health in lab animals like mice, and that drugs to benefit people are on the way.
"It's not an if, but a when," said Sinclair, who co-founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to pursue such drugs. The company, which is testing medicine in people with Type 2 diabetes, was recently bought for $720 million by GlaxoSmithKline, the world's second-largest drug maker.
Sinclair said treatments could be a few years or a decade away, but they're "really close. It's not something (from) science fiction and it's not something for the next generation."
The discussion of aging was a closing event of the first World Science Festival, a five-day celebration of science for the public that brought together researchers ranging from biologists to quantum physicists. Participants included Nobel laureates, business leaders and philosophers.
At the longevity event, hundreds of people young and old packed a sold-out New York University hall, including actress Jane Fonda, who turned 70 in December.
Aging, particularly aging well and staying healthy, is increasingly a hot topic as the population grays, people live longer and tens of millions of baby-boomers enter or approach their 60s.
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By DAVID HO
Is 90 the new 50?
Not yet, aging researchers say, but medical breakthroughs to significantly extend life and ease the ailments of getting older are closer than many people think.
"The general public has no idea what's coming," said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor who has made headlines with research into the health benefits of a substance found in red wine called resveratrol.
Speaking on a panel of aging experts, Sinclair had the boldest predictions. He said scientists can greatly increase longevity and improve health in lab animals like mice, and that drugs to benefit people are on the way.
"It's not an if, but a when," said Sinclair, who co-founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to pursue such drugs. The company, which is testing medicine in people with Type 2 diabetes, was recently bought for $720 million by GlaxoSmithKline, the world's second-largest drug maker.
Sinclair said treatments could be a few years or a decade away, but they're "really close. It's not something (from) science fiction and it's not something for the next generation."
The discussion of aging was a closing event of the first World Science Festival, a five-day celebration of science for the public that brought together researchers ranging from biologists to quantum physicists. Participants included Nobel laureates, business leaders and philosophers.
At the longevity event, hundreds of people young and old packed a sold-out New York University hall, including actress Jane Fonda, who turned 70 in December.
Aging, particularly aging well and staying healthy, is increasingly a hot topic as the population grays, people live longer and tens of millions of baby-boomers enter or approach their 60s.
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Red Meat Again Linked to Colorectal Cancer
Red Meat Again Linked to Colorectal Cancer
A recent study from the Ontario Family Colorectal Cancer Registry, established by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, compared the diets of people who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer to the diets of people who did not have cancer. It turned out that those who ate the most red meat had a 67 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer, regardless of any genetic factors they may have had. However, some people with specific genes had a much higher risk from meat-eating—up to four times the cancer risk—compared to people who avoid meat.
Every year, 160,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer. About half of all cases are already incurable when they are found.
Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Manno M, Gallinger S, Okey AB, Harper PA. Red meat intake, doneness, polymorphisms in genes that encode carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes, and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2008;17:3098-3107.
For information about nutrition and health, please visit www.pcrm.org/.
Breaking Medical News is a service of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
5100 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20016.
A recent study from the Ontario Family Colorectal Cancer Registry, established by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, compared the diets of people who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer to the diets of people who did not have cancer. It turned out that those who ate the most red meat had a 67 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer, regardless of any genetic factors they may have had. However, some people with specific genes had a much higher risk from meat-eating—up to four times the cancer risk—compared to people who avoid meat.
Every year, 160,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer. About half of all cases are already incurable when they are found.
Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Manno M, Gallinger S, Okey AB, Harper PA. Red meat intake, doneness, polymorphisms in genes that encode carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes, and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2008;17:3098-3107.
For information about nutrition and health, please visit www.pcrm.org/.
Breaking Medical News is a service of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
5100 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20016.
Hi to all members
I just joined this group, am age 68, but my mother-in-law is 109 with a birthday coming in Dec. I would like to know where to find the longevity calculator on this site, I seem, to be unable to locate it.
Creative Carrie
Creative Carrie
Ronald Davis, Health Crusader, Dies at 52
"By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Dr. Ronald M. Davis, a former president of the American Medical Association who campaigned against tobacco, alcohol, obesity, illicit drugs and unhealthy lifestyles in his career as a public health official, died Thursday at his home in East Lansing, Mich. He was 52."
Is this Ironic or what?
CNN/ABC/ZOGBY Poll results:
53%- Ironic
47%- What.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Brenda Craine, a spokeswoman for the medical association. Dr. Davis received the diagnosis in February and had since helped to raise public awareness of the disease, which afflicts 37,000 Americans a year and kills 34,000.
In 1988, when the United States surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, released the most devastating of his reports on smoking — calling it as addictive as heroin and saying it was responsible for 300,000 American deaths annually — Dr. Davis was a young crusader in the antismoking wars, a rising official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite years of warnings on cigarette packs, millions of people were still lighting up, and American cigarette exports were earning $2.5 billion a year and rising relentlessly.
To Dr. Davis, the struggle seemed hopeless. “I don’t know how to deal with it,” he said. “My life’s work has been devoted to reducing global morbidity figures, yet in this case we are exporting an obviously hazardous agent. This kind of thing perplexes me as a government official and frustrates me as a doctor.”
In the generation since, millions have given up smoking, though 400,000 still die from the habit every year. But colleagues said Dr. Davis stayed in the Sisyphean fight against smoking and other health hazards in a nation of fast foods, caloric binges, lazy ways and the anodynes of liquor and cocaine.
With speeches and lectures, with articles in peer journals and on Web sites, with surveys and health bulletins, with legal depositions and testimony before Congressional committees and state and federal agencies, Dr. Davis was a tenacious campaigner for healthy lifestyles, promoting fitness, exercise, better diets and an awareness of the corrosive effects of tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs.
Dr. Davis, a specialist in preventive medicine, served as the 162nd president of the medical association from June 2007 to June 2008, after decades as a public health official. He was the director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the C.D.C. from 1987 to 1991, the chief medical officer of the Michigan Department of Public Health from 1991 to 1995, and since then the director of health promotion and disease prevention for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
He also delivered the medical association’s historic recent apology to black physicians for more than a century of exclusion from membership. While the A.M.A., founded in 1847, had no formal policy barring black doctors, it required members until the 1960s to belong to state or local medical societies, many of which barred blacks.
“This is the moment we can stand as one,” Dr. Davis told the National Medical Association, America’s largest black doctors’ organization, in July. Besides apologizing for its history of racial discrimination, the A.M.A. pledged to raise its minority ranks. At the time, the association said, only 2 percent of its members and fewer than 3 percent of the nation’s medical students and doctors were black.
Ronald Mark Davis was born in Chicago on June 18, 1956, to George and Alice Komessar Davis. He received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1978, and at the University of Chicago he earned a master’s in public policy in 1981 and his medical degree in 1983.
After an internship in Chicago, he trained in epidemiology and became a resident in preventive medicine at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. In 1984, he became the first resident ever named to the A.M.A.’s board, serving until 1987. He was elected to the board again in 2001 and was re-elected in 2005.
Dr. Davis wrote many articles for medical journals and was a founding editor of Tobacco Control, published by the British Medical Association.
He taught at Johns Hopkins, Wayne State, Morehouse, Michigan State and the Universities of Illinois and Michigan. He directed many studies and testified in tobacco cases and before government agencies on many topics, including obesity, which is fast overtaking smoking as a cause of death.
At his retirement luncheon in Chicago in June, he cited some of the villains: pizzas, hamburgers and in Detroit the traditional paczki — a deep-fried Polish pastry that resembles a jelly doughnut. The winner of a paczki-eating contest at a Mardi Gras celebration, he noted, had consumed 6,000 calories and 375 grams of fat in 15 minutes.
“Another vivid example of our toxic food environment,” he said.
Dr. Davis and the former Nadine Messina were married in 1979 and had three sons, Jared, Evan and Connor. Besides his wife and sons, all of East Lansing, Mich., Dr. Davis is survived by a brother, Gary, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; three half-brothers, Dr. Joseph Golbus of Northbrook, Ill., Sgt. David Davis of Fort Buchanan, P.R., and David Komessar of Newton, Mass.; a sister, Lynne Davis of Wendell, Mass.; and four half-sisters, Brenda Nyquist of Buffalo Grove, Ill., Abby Hirsh of Northbrook, Ill., Debra Magier of Newton, Mass., and Julie Godnik of Northbrook, Ill."
Note that my father is still alive and well at 92.5. He quit his more than a pack a day at 67, and never restarted, but he was always overweight after his 40s and did not eat well when he was eating out especially, and did drink socially. His three younger sisters are all dead now. The youngest died in 2000 at 72 and never smoked. The other two did and died at 80 and 89.
Dr. Ronald M. Davis, a former president of the American Medical Association who campaigned against tobacco, alcohol, obesity, illicit drugs and unhealthy lifestyles in his career as a public health official, died Thursday at his home in East Lansing, Mich. He was 52."
Is this Ironic or what?
CNN/ABC/ZOGBY Poll results:
53%- Ironic
47%- What.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Brenda Craine, a spokeswoman for the medical association. Dr. Davis received the diagnosis in February and had since helped to raise public awareness of the disease, which afflicts 37,000 Americans a year and kills 34,000.
In 1988, when the United States surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, released the most devastating of his reports on smoking — calling it as addictive as heroin and saying it was responsible for 300,000 American deaths annually — Dr. Davis was a young crusader in the antismoking wars, a rising official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite years of warnings on cigarette packs, millions of people were still lighting up, and American cigarette exports were earning $2.5 billion a year and rising relentlessly.
To Dr. Davis, the struggle seemed hopeless. “I don’t know how to deal with it,” he said. “My life’s work has been devoted to reducing global morbidity figures, yet in this case we are exporting an obviously hazardous agent. This kind of thing perplexes me as a government official and frustrates me as a doctor.”
In the generation since, millions have given up smoking, though 400,000 still die from the habit every year. But colleagues said Dr. Davis stayed in the Sisyphean fight against smoking and other health hazards in a nation of fast foods, caloric binges, lazy ways and the anodynes of liquor and cocaine.
With speeches and lectures, with articles in peer journals and on Web sites, with surveys and health bulletins, with legal depositions and testimony before Congressional committees and state and federal agencies, Dr. Davis was a tenacious campaigner for healthy lifestyles, promoting fitness, exercise, better diets and an awareness of the corrosive effects of tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs.
Dr. Davis, a specialist in preventive medicine, served as the 162nd president of the medical association from June 2007 to June 2008, after decades as a public health official. He was the director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the C.D.C. from 1987 to 1991, the chief medical officer of the Michigan Department of Public Health from 1991 to 1995, and since then the director of health promotion and disease prevention for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
He also delivered the medical association’s historic recent apology to black physicians for more than a century of exclusion from membership. While the A.M.A., founded in 1847, had no formal policy barring black doctors, it required members until the 1960s to belong to state or local medical societies, many of which barred blacks.
“This is the moment we can stand as one,” Dr. Davis told the National Medical Association, America’s largest black doctors’ organization, in July. Besides apologizing for its history of racial discrimination, the A.M.A. pledged to raise its minority ranks. At the time, the association said, only 2 percent of its members and fewer than 3 percent of the nation’s medical students and doctors were black.
Ronald Mark Davis was born in Chicago on June 18, 1956, to George and Alice Komessar Davis. He received a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1978, and at the University of Chicago he earned a master’s in public policy in 1981 and his medical degree in 1983.
After an internship in Chicago, he trained in epidemiology and became a resident in preventive medicine at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. In 1984, he became the first resident ever named to the A.M.A.’s board, serving until 1987. He was elected to the board again in 2001 and was re-elected in 2005.
Dr. Davis wrote many articles for medical journals and was a founding editor of Tobacco Control, published by the British Medical Association.
He taught at Johns Hopkins, Wayne State, Morehouse, Michigan State and the Universities of Illinois and Michigan. He directed many studies and testified in tobacco cases and before government agencies on many topics, including obesity, which is fast overtaking smoking as a cause of death.
At his retirement luncheon in Chicago in June, he cited some of the villains: pizzas, hamburgers and in Detroit the traditional paczki — a deep-fried Polish pastry that resembles a jelly doughnut. The winner of a paczki-eating contest at a Mardi Gras celebration, he noted, had consumed 6,000 calories and 375 grams of fat in 15 minutes.
“Another vivid example of our toxic food environment,” he said.
Dr. Davis and the former Nadine Messina were married in 1979 and had three sons, Jared, Evan and Connor. Besides his wife and sons, all of East Lansing, Mich., Dr. Davis is survived by a brother, Gary, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; three half-brothers, Dr. Joseph Golbus of Northbrook, Ill., Sgt. David Davis of Fort Buchanan, P.R., and David Komessar of Newton, Mass.; a sister, Lynne Davis of Wendell, Mass.; and four half-sisters, Brenda Nyquist of Buffalo Grove, Ill., Abby Hirsh of Northbrook, Ill., Debra Magier of Newton, Mass., and Julie Godnik of Northbrook, Ill."
Note that my father is still alive and well at 92.5. He quit his more than a pack a day at 67, and never restarted, but he was always overweight after his 40s and did not eat well when he was eating out especially, and did drink socially. His three younger sisters are all dead now. The youngest died in 2000 at 72 and never smoked. The other two did and died at 80 and 89.
