Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Today's children will be tomorrow's centenarians


Today's children will be tomorrow's centenarians. A new report says that up to 100 years to become a normal American children since 2000. How can they live in a century of influence on the children? What about the quality of life awaits those who live so long?

Japan has given birth to now, the world's longest life expectancy - 83 years for babies in 2007, according to the World Health Organization. Life expectancy in the United States is 77.9 years for babies born in 2007, Prevention, according to preliminary data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and available. The number of people aged 100 or more in the United States has doubled since 1990 and is 16 times the number of centenarians in 1950. According to the U.S. Census, there were an estimated 96,548 centenarians in the United States from November 2009.

A variation of the gene FOXO3A is more common in men and 100 others have found, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published earlier this year. Genet is credited with a longer maturity for some, but the researchers say other factors are involved, too.

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