Interesting how the gaps became much more closer to equal by 2001 between the women(s) and the men(s).

I find these age life tables to be a little harder to read than "life expectancy at birth" time lines so I attached a link below to a website with two graphs: one world life expectancy for last 2000 years and the other life expectancy since 1820 by country.

One other caveat. There is quite a bit of difference in life expectancy by race by region. For instance in the US life expectancy for blacks in the most poor areas of the south (Mississippi Delta) approaches that for 3rd world countries.

I found this test and took it. I scored to live a projected 90.3 years, while DH only scored 89.8.

I think the test was rather simple and doesnt account for environmental factors, except for the effects of smoking.
Anyways, it was interesting

People are living longer [well existing and limping around longer in a "drugged" state if you ask me].....and who is asking me though?

Nobody on my mothers side of the family ever made it past 52 years of age! I have a cousin who is 52 now, I spoke to him a month ago and he thinks he will live for many more years, break the curse, and for me to not worry about the family's unfortunate timing of expiring. :)

I would ask about the "drugged state", I am curious just how many people are on medication unneccessarily or over drugged up. I understand that some people have many different doctors and that each doctor prescribes differently and hopefully those elderly folks and doctors dont get confused.

Nonetheless, I am however grateful for all the positive advancements in medicine and for the great potential of sharing information for many years to come in these forums!

Pardon the semi-rant here.

I have always thought that we should be able to write off our food as preventative health care...or that a doctor should be able to prescribe a healthy diet for us and it should be deductible like medication is or against our taxes. Of course only for fresh produce, dairy, meats, and grains/nuts labeled as real organic food and not processed, or artifical foods supporting the idea with what Wayne is implying in regards to an "organic approach rather than the chemical/bio-tech ways".
Eating healthy is preventative in regards to health care.

BTW-my test proclaimed I would live to the ripe old age of 94.6 and that was after saying my parents lived to a min. of 75 yrs. Well Mom was taken out with a 9mm slug while at work at 53, and Dad is still alive at 66. So I'm not sure how that would factor in. I was also curious as to what flossing had to do with longevity.

Sorry about your Mom.

HOwever, yes I agree, obesity being a disease seems frightful. The compulsion to eat and fill the body with food is like a nervous condition or a habitual problem, but its the way that its treated that becomes frightful...if I am resonating with you...obesity becomes another excuse to prescribe medication and put a bandaid on a problem without correcting it.The qick fix era.

...sorry to hear about your Mom, too. Life is precious.

It isn't already? We have entire public assistance programs directed at helping many people that, from my perspective, are where they are primarily due to stupidity, i. e., bad choices. Human services and social services have programs that often involve medical intervention in the form of anti-depressants, mood elevators, methadone injections and free needles, ADD and ADHD stimulants, morning after pills, etc., to treat or mask the symptoms of stupid choices.

We have adult education programs and GED classes for those people that for legitimate reasons beyond their control, like illness, injury, etc., could not finish high school, but it is also provided, often for free, for those who were not paying attention in class, skipping school, blowing off homework, and outright quitting school, or in other words, acting stupid. It is often justified by the program supporters as a uplifting service that helps prevent the onset of depression, low self-esteem, etc., conditions often cited as medical, that come from the unemployment, low pay, unsafe jobs, etc., that are more likely the direct result of the stupid decisions they made, not from any medical causes.

Hey, how about personal responsibility?

Let me ask you this: is it quite stupid to be born into a very impoverished family, in say - Mexico - and migrate to the US for the priveledge of doing some of that low-paying dangerous work considerately provided by us?

If everyone would only stop burdening us with their stupid decisions then we could weave our own cloth, our wives could stitch our clothes together in their spare time, we'd make our own shoes, tires, electronics, dishware, shovels - migrate and pick our own oranges, peppers, artichokes and apples; certainly we aren't going to do without and since we're so smart and smug doing our own drudgery shouldn't be a problem.

Wayne, unfortunately, blacks all too well remember the Gov't sponsored Tuskegee experiments when patients were allowed to suffer from syphyllis without treatments that were readily available to whites.

I would like to direct and write a movie on my mother some day. I think I am going to call it Grandma CInderella...that might help explain the real CInderella I met and lived with this past summer (my niece). I want to film it in three different paradigms at once, hopefully would be an interactive understanding of mind frames interactively. ( a puppet may come out of its place once while the actual comes out of place consisitantly often and the animation rarely interfers.
Filmed in animation, filmed using puppets, filmed in live drama. The twist is that the hand puppets are like really talking to each other and the drama is talking to an audience trying to deliver an altered state of thinking. This state is then animated or dramatized so that the infomation has an appearance of multi bias. One clear voice- a voice of truth or the ability to agree.

I learned a new way of control, it is a saying that goes like this, and if you ever hear it, listen to the chants of songs at play time and see how people playing together and how adults can change and disturb a childs way of thinking or for that mattter an adult. I forgot the saying now...darn, my thoughts go everywhere. I think the least one knows the better as far as keeping ones mind from creative traps. Or addictions that keep one from facing their greatest achievement potential.

ANyways...the short version of the story is My mother took a correspondance course, I believe through the Dept of Education and received her GED certificate of graduation. I have a copy of the diploma. The tests cost her about 395.00? Perhaps I am getting a civil service course confuse me, which she also graduated from as a correspondance course. She had 7 kids and couldnt get away to go to school.

She dropped out of high school to marry my father the first year she attended a public school. Her parents were from Poland, I beleieve her to be 1st generation as a US Citizen, and to make matters worse for me, My husband is related to almost everyone on the east coast it seems, by actually the townships on this island and other surrounding islands are uniquely family tied over the time of 1809, when they first settled and laid claim to a native american summer home. I guess a human recognizes the same thought processes and hopefully has become less fearful of each.

Fear is the opposit of to be at peace. Fear promotes anger, and unpleasant stimuli to ones aging process.
Having ponder the thought it seems that while being of fear is a toxic feeling and the body responds to the stimulithus it is not productive in ones life. Fear creates a tax on the body or a toll. and if the tax/toll is warranted then it should be paid. Otherwise choose not to be in fear. What I try to do is find a way to calm and find out what would be required of me to achieve my goals...then I just do exactly what it takes to get there. This process is like riding a bike or skiing for the first time. At first it feels really natural and then you generally self-actualize at some point if freed from distractions and procrastinations. Becoming present is actually foreign for some people.

My 6 year old is showing me a picture of a robot that will go around the yard. It is called the Insect. It was a book that is nothing but propaganda for other plastic assembled toy that actually moves but has no function, it just steps forward like a wind-up toy. Basicly, a toy, wind- up, build it yourself, thing.

Do you think it could be built as a wooden windup car or recycled something (?) that I could use for work? How would I safely wind it up and not get snapped for twisting too tight so I could go uphill with power??