Living to 100 to share?

Report provides, most children born in 2000 in rich countries could live for 100 years
October 1, 2009 - completion of 100 in May, it was thick enough for most children born in rich countries since 2000, according to a new report.

"If the increase in life expectancy in developed countries over the past two centuries, to the entire 21st century, most children since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, born in the United States, Canada, Japan and other countries with long life will celebrate its 100th birthday, says the report published in the journal The Lancet.

The report comes from researchers including Kaare Christensen, MD, Danish Research Center on Aging at the University of Southern Denmark.

Christensen and his colleagues note that life expectancy in most industrialized countries continues to grow and shows no signs of slowing down. But also emphasize that it is unclear whether obesity is to reduce the increase in life expectancy also increased.

Team Christensen provides that companies see life as a set of three stages - childhood, adulthood and old age - and start killing the proportion of "old" age "third (young, elderly) and very old (the oldest old). "

"To live a very long life, are not the prerogative of future generations away - very long product life are probably the fate of most people today in developed countries," the researchers write.

People are healthier in old age "fourth"? May be too early to tell.

Christensen and his colleagues say it is "rare" data on health between the 85 and older. But they also point to early diagnosis and better treatment of many diseases, including cancer and heart disease.

For the record, Japan has given birth to the world's longest life expectancy - 83 years for children in 2007, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The life expectancy of 77.9 years for babies born in the United States in 2007, according to preliminary data of the CDC.