Lazy Person's Guide To Old Age

Stop eating all of that junk food. Why? So, you can live longer, of course. Get off the La-Z-Boy and go run five miles. Why?! So, you can enjoy your old age. No more drinking and smoking. Why?!! So, you can live to be 100 years old. The rationale often given for converting to healthy habits has been to give you a longer life. Who better to know about long lives than those that are closing in on the big 100. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates there were nearly 425,000 people aged 95 and older living in the U.S. in 2010 − still only a small percentage of the 40 million U.S. adults 65 and over. What’s their secret? Are they non-smoking, teetotaling, vegan marathon runners? Not exactly, according to researchers at the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. They interviewed 477 Ashkenazi Jews who were 95 and older (95-112, 75 percent of them women), and participating in Einstein's Longevity Genes Project. The Ashkenazi desc...