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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Calories
Come
Japanese
Lifetime
Low
Naturally
People
World
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Aging
Belief
Believe
Deny
Die
Dream
Dream World
Eventually
Hit
Hold
Living
Lot
Moment
Occur
Occurs
People
Reality
Them
Until
Want
Will
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Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Ageing
Animals
Basically
Create
Enough
External
External World
Humans
Laboratory
Live
Long
Once
Only
Organisms
Our
Pets
Protected
Protection
Rare
See
Very
World
You
Zoo
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Always
Course
Culture
Desired
Dramatic
Every
Existed
Extension
Failed
Humans
Life
Live
Long
Longer
Religion
Society
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As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Aging
Begin
Come
Even
Evidence
Handful
Humans
Influence
Intervention
May
Other
Scientists
Selling
Shown
Soon
Species
Though
Up
Works
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Cure
Death
Game
Sum
Which
Zero
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Continue
Crop
Envelope
Like
May
Only
Other
Out
Push
Really
See
Survival
Things
Up
Want
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Better
Car
Equivalent
Exercise
Filter
Lot
Makes
Oil
Roughly
Run
You
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Equivalent
Everyone
Exercise
Exists
Fountain
Free
Only
Roughly
Today
Youth
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Day
Every
Every Day
Find
Get
Massage
Way
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Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Begin
Change
Childhood
Epidemic
Fixing
Food
Going
Hopeful
Modern
Obesity
Our
Relationship
Require
See
Turnaround
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Better
Computing
Copying
Could
Ears
Endlessly
Exponential
Eyes
Growing
Increases
Internal
Like
Limbs
Machine
New
Organs
Power
Read
Stories
Xerox
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Along
Healthy
How
Important
Less
Live
Long
Than
Way
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Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Added
Burden
Die
Humans
Knowing
Like
Living
Things
Will
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Aging
Death
Fear
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Avoid
Delay
Doubt
Eventually
Extended
Find
Life
Likely
Little
More
Way
Will
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Best
Disability
Disease
Everything
Little
Live
Our
Out
Possible
Potential
Right
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Age
Ages
Aging
Biological
Condition
Disability
Even
Every
Frailty
Later
Minor
Mortality
Process
Rate
See
Slow
Virtually
Which
Yields
You
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
About
Die
Died
Find
Five
Other
Person
Stroke
Things
Who
Will
You
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Adopting
Advances
Behavioral
Educated
Habits
Harmful
Least
Life
Medical
Medical Technology
Members
Missing
Much
Out
Population
Shorten
Sure
Technology
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