Re: Jack La Lanne dies at 97

[Guest guest]

I'm a newly minted member so if you haven't seen me before this that's why

Jack died of an ILLNESS (pneumonia) that many if not most of the advanced aging

are susceptible to and succumb in large numbers. With all due respect to you and

your uncle, perhaps he's just fortunate not to have been exposed to these

bacteria as of yet?

I'd be curious how many & what meds he is currently on that now mitigate his

lack of attention to healthy diet & lifestyle vs how many Jack was on just prior

to his illness.

I'm sure you won't know but this would be interesting.

Burns lived to 100 smoked a cigar everyday. Go figure..

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> http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/celebrity/?story=/mwt/feature/2011

> /01/24/us_obit_jack_lalanne

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> My husband¹s uncle just celebrated his 100th in December. He is frail but

> otherwise in good health mentally and physically, lives alone (but gets help

> from neighbors), neither exercises nor eats particularly healthy. Go

> figure......

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[Guest guest]

At 100 years old, my uncle (who was on the battlefield in WW II ) has probably been exposed to every manner of bugs! So that theory is just not plausible.

Exposure is not the only (or even the most common) cause of pneumonia. People with weakened immune systems (such as the elderly) are susceptible. AIDs victims for example.

My uncle is not on any medication and shuns doctors. Fortunately in his case, that has worked for him during his entire adulthood.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_get_pneumonia

Generally, those with weakened immune systems such as the elderly, the very young, and those on certain medications are susceptible.

On 1/24/11 4:28 PM, " grudendon " <grudendon@...> wrote:

I'm a newly minted member so if you haven't seen me before this that's why

Jack died of an ILLNESS (pneumonia) that many if not most of the advanced aging are susceptible to and succumb in large numbers. With all due respect to you and your uncle, perhaps he's just fortunate not to have been exposed to these bacteria as of yet?

I'd be curious how many & what meds he is currently on that now mitigate his lack of attention to healthy diet & lifestyle vs how many Jack was on just prior to his illness.

I'm sure you won't know but this would be interesting.

Burns lived to 100 smoked a cigar everyday. Go figure..

>

> http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/celebrity/?story=/mwt/feature/2011

> /01/24/us_obit_jack_lalanne

>

> My husband’s uncle just celebrated his 100th in December. He is frail but

> otherwise in good health mentally and physically, lives alone (but gets help

> from neighbors), neither exercises nor eats particularly healthy. Go

> figure......

>

[Guest guest]

We all die of something. IIRC Al Pater has survived several bouts of pneumonia. Some could argue very low energy balance can be counter productive in connection with such stresses, while good hospital care is always useful. JLL was a poster boy for healthy diet and exercise, but I believe that he was also blessed with good genes. Our body's recuperative powers are surely in decline by the late '90's, I am only in my 60's and perceive some difference in myself.CR, and the sundry life extension strategies attempt to up regulate our internal damage repair mechanisms, and down regulate the rate of decay. While this may sound like a simple goal, there a long way to go to get a firm grasp on the handles for either mechanism. Lots of evidence but no silver bullet just yet. Any who have been following this for a while have seen several promising candidates fail to deliver.Energy restriction seem to correlate with nudging both in the right direction for many, but that is far from a cure for aging, and if a little is good, more may not always be better. Genes probably still matter. They certainly do for the lab rats used in LE studies. JRPS: Avoiding doctors and hospitals is probably not a bad idea when you can sensibly get away with it. I play basketball in a hospital health club, and worry about the resistant microbes that often grow in such highly medicated environments. but life is too short to not play ball. I read that even bed bugs are evolving to resist standard little critter poisons. Now if we could come up with a good way to make evolution reward us living to 150, and a few tens of thousands of years for evolution to do the hard work. Perhaps if we didn't have our first offspring until 100 years old, that would apply evolutionary pressure to reward living longer. Anybody that patient? :-) On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:28 PM, grudendon wrote:

I'm a newly minted member so if you haven't seen me before this that's why

Jack died of an ILLNESS (pneumonia) that many if not most of the advanced aging are susceptible to and succumb in large numbers. With all due respect to you and your uncle, perhaps he's just fortunate not to have been exposed to these bacteria as of yet?

I'd be curious how many & what meds he is currently on that now mitigate his lack of attention to healthy diet & lifestyle vs how many Jack was on just prior to his illness.

I'm sure you won't know but this would be interesting.

Burns lived to 100 smoked a cigar everyday. Go figure..

>

> http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/celebrity/?story=/mwt/feature/2011

> /01/24/us_obit_jack_lalanne

>

> My husband¹s uncle just celebrated his 100th in December. He is frail but

> otherwise in good health mentally and physically, lives alone (but gets help

> from neighbors), neither exercises nor eats particularly healthy. Go

> figure......

>