Long life

[gurnemanz]

.. still here... Thanks for those replies. I loved the mackerel video. For the Japanese, meticulous preparation and ceremony always seem paramount. I also enjoyed Rambler, Gambler which I sometimes used to sing (along with Wild Rover and other such stuff) with the students I was teaching when working in Germany many years ago. The only recording of it I could find in my collection is the 19-year-old pre-fame Bob Dylan on the "No Direction Home" Scorsese soundtrack. Nicely done and recorded by a fellow student to test out a newly-acquired reel-to-reel tape recorder. It is described in the notes as "a variant of the well-known folk tune Wagoner's Lad"

[Hornspieler]

I've just read in the paper that Misao Okara has become the word's oldest person (aged 115 and 99 days), and recommends eating pickled mackerel for long life. We did have mackerel (non-pickled) last night, so I might be on the right track. When I asked my father who died aged 95 a few years ago, he put his longevity down to using the stairs rather than the lift to his office on the 7th floor. As I approach my modest 64th in a couple of weeks, any other suggestions?

Don't stop breathing!

HS:rolleyes:

[MrGongGong]

Don't stop breathing!

HS:rolleyes:

Surely the key is long notes
30 minutes a day
every day
?

[Anna]

I've found, doing family research, that genes seem to be the deciding factor to longevity. On my paternal side males are lucky to achieve three score years and ten but the maternal side females generally seem to live forever. Oldest we have had is grandmother's great-aunt who reached 102, others were well into their 90s. We have always had more females than males in our family, currernt crop is 4 boys and 10 girls.

Lifestyle follows as the second factor. I think it's generally agreed there is a timebomb as regards obesity and the health problems it brings. Of course, I don't know what genes I have inherited .... Alzheimers worries me, I don't know how I would cope but I fear cancer and pain more (which evidently half of us will get) Overall, I would have said I'm not looking foward to getting very old but having made friends recently with some 80+ year olds, who are really sparky and fun, I really don't know. I guess I just think it won't happen to me and I will be eternally young.

[Serial_Apologist]

Surely the key is long notes
30 minutes a day
every day
?

Breathes rather than semibreathes?

[Serial_Apologist]

I've found, doing family research, that genes seem to be the deciding factor to longevity. On my paternal side males are lucky to achieve three score years and ten but the maternal side females generally seem to live forever. Oldest we have had is grandmother's great-aunt who reached 102, others were well into their 90s. We have always had more females than males in our family, currernt crop is 4 boys and 10 girls.

Lifestyle follows as the second factor. I think it's generally agreed there is a timebomb as regards obesity and the health problems it brings. Of course, I don't know what genes I have inherited .... Alzheimers worries me, I don't know how I would cope but I fear cancer and pain more (which evidently half of us will get) Overall, I would have said I'm not looking foward to getting very old but having made friends recently with some 80+ year olds, who are really sparky and fun, I really don't know. I guess I just think it won't happen to me and I will be eternally young.

Eternally young, like our salymap!

[MrGongGong]

Breathes rather than semibreathes?

Or as the great Jim Rattigan said to me after spending a day playing horn for a film session
"doing eggs matey , nothing but eggs"

[Boilk]

I've just read in the paper that Misao Okara has become the word's oldest person (aged 115 and 99 days), and recommends eating pickled mackerel for long life. We did have mackerel (non-pickled) last night, so I might be on the right track. When I asked my father who died aged 95 a few years ago, he put his longevity down to using the stairs rather than the lift to his office on the 7th floor. As I approach my modest 64th in a couple of weeks, any other suggestions?

The Japanese man who just died was roundly described by the media as the "oldest man ever" - which is poppycop considering we've been here for thousands of years. He's just the oldest with a verifiable birth certificate, I'm quite sure men have gone past 120, probably 130 in the Far East.

A lot of degenerative illnesses come down to cumulative excessive sugar consumption over the years. Go easy on the grains, as well as meats contaminated with antibiotics and growth hormone. A lot of chicken and other poultry in the West contains arsenic (animal feed). Fish contaminated with heavy metals is virtually unavoidable in our modern age, so you'll have to chelate the metals out.

Some studies have shown that a happy disposition is a very big single factor in longevity because it results in a more robust imune system that can better cope in our increasingly toxic environment. A disproportionately high number of people die soon after retirement, depression being brought on by a sense of lack of purpose and a sharp decline in daily social interaction, which of course is therapeutic. Salymap is spot on to suggest "getting on with the neighbours" ... and your local (virtual?) community.

[gurnemanz]

Don't stop breathing!

HS:rolleyes:

Reminds me of the epitaph for blues singer: "Didn't wake up this morning".

[salymap]

Whose epitaph was ' I told you I wasn't well'? Was it Spike Milligan?

[Serial_Apologist]

Reminds me of the epitaph for blues singer: "Didn't wake up this morning".

What was Spike Milligan's epitaph? "I told them I was ill"?

[salymap]

What was Spike Milligan's epitaph? "I told them I was ill"?

Same difference.

[mangerton]

I think (though I could be wrong) that it was George Burns who was asked how it felt to be 100.

He replied, "Very good, considering the alternative".