The Man Who 'Grew Young at 70'
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The Man Who 'Grew Young at 70'
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#2I do not like how the article easily dismisses the point that this guys wife became a centenarian with "Good genes, perhaps, but probably not her husband’s exercises, which she was said to have shunned."
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#3I never follow 'advice' from outliers.
Also, remember "survivorship bias."
The advice:
Drink plenty of water
Get out in the sunlight and fresh air
Floss
And, of course, exercise
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#4So, a man started exercising and stuff in his older age.
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#5So, a man started exercising and stuff in his older age.
'saved you a click'
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#7I never follow 'advice' from outliers. Also, remember "survivorship bias." The advice: Drink plenty of water Get out in the sunlight and fresh air Floss And, of course, exercise Yea, ok. Thanks.
Never dismiss advice from something that potentially may not be an outlier.
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#8I never follow 'advice' from outliers. Also, remember "survivorship bias." The advice: Drink plenty of water Get out in the sunlight and fresh air Floss And, of course, exercise Yea, ok. Thanks.
And when people ask 100 year olds how they did it, the recommendation is always smoking and drinking.
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#9> or a tad obsessive (page after page on the importance of chewing one’s food)
> He reportedly died in the mid-1920s, when he was in his early 80s. It wasn’t age that did him in, but choking on a chicken bone.
Guess he really was onto something with that chewing thing.
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#10I never follow 'advice' from outliers. Also, remember "survivorship bias." The advice: Drink plenty of water Get out in the sunlight and fresh air Floss And, of course, exercise Yea, ok. Thanks.
And when people ask 100 year olds how they did it, the recommendation is always smoking and drinking.
Ray Kurzweil is going to live forever because he takes a hundred pills a day, so i don't know why you'd recommend silly things like enjoying a drink and a smoke.