Half of babies 'will live to 100'

[WriteDown]

Source: BBC

More than half of babies now born in the UK and other wealthy nations will live to 100 years, researchers say.

The study, published in The Lancet journal, also says the extra years are spent with less serious disability.

Data from more than 30 developed countries shows that since 1950 the probability of surviving past 80 years of age has doubled for both sexes.

One expert said healthy behaviours for all ages was the key to enjoying living a long life.

Professor Kaare Christensen, of the Danish Ageing Research Centre at the University of Southern Denmark, who led the study, said life expectancy had been increasing since 1840 and there was no sign of this trend slowing down.

He said: "The linear increase in record life expectancy for more than 165 years does not suggest a looming limit to human lifespan.....

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8284574.stm

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I wonder how long the lifespan will get to eventually.

[KillCapitalism]

1. Not here.

Notice the article said wealthy nations.

As we slide downward into becoming a 3rd world country, I expect life expectancy to fall back to about where it was in the year 1900.

[damntexdem]

29. We're already there in a lot of areas of the country.

Some poorer counties in the U.S. are showing declines in life expectancy, especially for women.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Not if we keep fattening ourselves to death, in this country. Maybe in healthier countries.

[WriteDown]

4. Hopefully, there will be some fines or penalties in UHC...

to help curb obesity.

[Mnemosyne]

17. Yeah, fining people is always good, especially the poor and disabled. n/t

[WriteDown]

21. Sometimes it is necessary....

Obesity is an epidemic and it has be curtailed.

[heidler1]

28. When and if it becomes obviously true that there are few very old fat people

then the younger people will react normally selfish and restrict their own food intake, much like smoking has diminished. IMO

[damntexdem]

30. But it won't be with fines.

There are many roots of the problem, some of them beyond the control of individuals suffering from the problem.

[high density]

19. Maybe we can smoke a couple packs a day and lose 50lbs.

:)

[Crowman1979]

3. If that's the case, more people need to try extreme sports.

Everyone needs to do something dangerous more often, and no I'm not talking about war, drunk driving, drugs or unsafe sex.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Well, if we made those into Olympic events ...

then we could burn some calories training for them.

Maybe we'd only have to add three events. "War" is pretty well covered in the olympics.

:hi:

[Crowman1979]

18. The USA would win gold every time in those events!

Drunk Driver vehicular jousting, bong running, line snorting, and marathon sex. Make that into a Decathlon! LOL

Hell, it's not like these athletes are drug free anyway.

[bitchkitty]

5. I think about 120 years eventually.

But not much more than that, unless we solve environmental pollution issues.

[bhikkhu]

6. Those long lives will see a lot

When I think of my great grandmother who was born in 1880 and died in 1978 I always think of how much the world changed while she walked on it. I think the changes will be greater for this next generation.

[ensho]

7. depending on how climate change affects them

nt

[raccoon]

8. Wonder how Medicare and Social Security will work out then.

However it goes, I won't be here to see it.

[Phoonzang]

9. *random negative DU comment about corporations or how we're all going to die*

Sorry, just trying to keep in the spirit of things. Can't discuss and article on it's own merits here after all.

[Codeine]

33. *obligatory hysteria about high fructose corn syrup*

;-)

[Speck Tater]

10. There won't be any wealthy nations 100 years from now. More than half will die of starvation.

The climate is crashing, the world's resources are running out, including oil, water, phosphorus, specialty metals. The experiment called "civilization" has just about run its course. The next 100 years will see the decline and fall of every wealthy nation on the planet.

Articles like this are just so much Pollyanna bullshit written by and for the deeply delusional who are so far into denial they have lost touch with reality.

[WriteDown]

11. And yet you are still wasting resources by posting on the

internet. Odd.

[Speck Tater]

12. I only use recycled pixels. nt

[Cal Carpenter]

14. LOL

That's good :)

[WriteDown]

20. Awesome. nt

[ensho]

23. good one

nt

[JackRiddler]

25. Apparently auditions for FOXNEWS talking points are a better use of pixels.

[4dsc]

13. I see someone knows the facts here

Of course this is nothing more than a feel good story that's not based upon reality..

The reality as mentioned means we are living in a non-sustainable society. Resources are running out. That's a fact.. Oil production as we know it today, will be non existent in a 100 years..

Its true, this story is BS..

[Crowman1979]

22. I think this whole "Be fruitful and multiply" thing has run its course.

Either get some BC or put the dick down! Because we've run out of space for farmland.

[Demeter]

24. Now That's Far More Likely!

[Codeine]

34. Water doesn't run out.

Metals can be recycled. Oil will be replaced with nuclear and later renewables. New economies and ways of living will rise.

Every generation predicts chaos and disaster following in it's wake. Every generation is wrong.

Empires fall, but civilization abides.

[flamingdem]

15. But will menopause and the male equivalent happen later?

I think not.

Lots of years out of the game for those long lived ones. They better learn chess.

[kestrel91316]

26. Insanely optimistic, given the deadly consequences of climate change

those babies will face in their lifetimes.

[eppur_se_muova]

27. WalMart greeters will outnumber customers -- could get pretty ugly. nt

[ki83760]

31. not in the US

[oedura]

32. Just what we need...

...more people on a planet with an ever-increasing population of almost 7 billion living even longer.