Longevity

Longevity is long life or existence. Reflections on longevity have usually gone beyond acknowledging the basic shortness of human life and included thinking about, and conceiving, methods to extend life (indefinitely). Longevity has been a topic not only for the scientific community but also for writers of travel, science fiction and utopian novels. The record human lifespan that has been authenticated is the 122 years 164 days of Jeanne Calment, though fiction, legend, and mythology have proposed or claimed vastly longer lifespans in ...

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Longevity - Presently

Longevity - Records

Longevity: Encyclopedia II - Longevity - Presently Various factors may promote longevity in an individual, such as genetics. Longevity in the general population can be interpreted from a high life expectancy. The most significant factors of life expectancy include nationality, health care, and hygiene. Minor factors include food and lifestyle. Below is a list of life expectancies in different types of countries[1]: First World: 77-81 years (eg. United States: 77.7 years, 2005 est) Second World: 65-77 years (eg. Russia: 67.10 years, 2005 est) Third World: 35-60 years (eg. Mo ...

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Longevity: Encyclopedia - Calorie restriction

Calorie restriction or Caloric restriction (CR) is the practice of limiting dietary energy intake to improve health and retard aging. In human subjects, CR has been shown to lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Some consider these to be biomarkers of aging, as such diseases are more frequent with increasing age. Every animal species tested with CR so far, including monkeys, rats, spiders and rotifers, has shown corresponding lifespan extension. CR is the only known dietary measure capable of extending maximum lifespan, as oppo ...

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Longevity: Encyclopedia - Nutrition

Nutrition is the study of the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. It is defined as the study of food. Absence of adequate nutrients can cause certain diseases to take hold that can potentially result in death. Between the extremes of optimal health and death from starvation or malnutrition, there is an array of disease states that can be caused or alleviated by changes in diet. Deficiencies, excesses and imbalances in the diet can produce negative impacts on health, which may result in diseases such as s ...

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Longevity: Encyclopedia II - National longevity recordholders - Austria

Maria Mika holds the female record at 112 years, 178 days (May 23, 1882-November 17, 1994). Leopold Vietoris, a notable mathematician, holds the male national record at 110 years, 309 days (June 4, 1891–April 9, 2002). ...

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Longevity: Encyclopedia - Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat, beef, poultry, fish or their by-products, with or without the use of dairy products or eggs [1]. The exclusion may also extend to products derived from animal carcasses, such as lard, tallow, gelatin, rennet and cochineal. Some who follow the diet also choose to refrain from wearing products that involve the death of animals, such as leather, silk, feather, and fur. It should be noted that although many vegetarians abstain from all animal by-products, others make exceptions in their di ...

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Longevity: Encyclopedia II - National longevity recordholders - Belgium

Joanna Catharina "Woinke" (Turcksin) DeRoover holds the female record at 112 years, 186 days (June 3, 1890–December 6, 2002). As Jan Machiel Reyskens (see #Netherlands) retained Belgian citizenship, some consider him Belgium's male recordholder, which is correct officially. The oldest man who lived his entire life in Belgium however is Louis Marion, who was even the oldest inhabitant at the time of his death at age ...

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