The idea that what a person eats influences their health no doubt predates any historical accounts that remain today.
#LIVE HEALTHIER UPDATE#
To paraphrase and update a speech from John F Kennedy given at the first White House Conference on Ageing in 1961, life can indeed be added to years, rather than just years added to life. In other words, as well as benefiting from longer lifespans, we are also experiencing longer “healthspans” – and the latter is proving to be even more malleable. Three decades earlier that number was 23%. In 2014, for instance, the United States Health Interview Survey reported that 16% of people aged between 50 and 64 were impaired every day with chronic illness. It sounds far-fetched, but our society has already made great strides towards that goal, thanks to advances in medicine and improvements in healthy living. She envisions a time when chronological age ticks by with every year, but biological age can be set to a different timer, where elderly doesn’t mean what it does now. This is a dream of Julie Mattison from the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) in the United States. He had no idea – she looked his age, or younger.
The woman replies that she is 52, has been married, divorced, and has children in their early 20s. The man is 33, he says, has been single for most of those years, and, although he doesn’t mention it, knows he is looking to settle down and have a family. After the initial nerves subside, all is going well. In a restaurant setting sometime in the not-too distant future, a man and a woman are on their first date. What you won’t find is any reference to, well, you-know-what. You’ll find everything from the story about the world’s greatest space mission to the truth about whether our cats really love us, the epic hunt to bring illegal fishermen to justice and the small team which brings long-buried World War Two tanks back to life.
We’ll be revisiting our most popular features from the last three years in our Lockdown Longreads.
#LIVE HEALTHIER SERIES#
So now we’re dedicating a series to help you escape.
BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to read.
0 kommentar(er)
