Francescas genes

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Francesca,

Wow. I wish I had your genetic background(with your mom living into her 90's fully mentally intact). All of my grandparents died in their 60's. I think diet had a huge impact on them though. I'm hoping to make 100 in good health myself.

Ed

Message: 3Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:46:03 -0400From: Francesca Skelton Subject: Re: An incident on OkinawaEddie: this incident you relate reminds me of my late mother. At 97 yearsof age, she was sharp as a tack, had and took care of her own apartment ina senior citizens complex and walked regularly 1/2 mile to the market to doher food shopping. She died a few months short of her 98th birthday afterdeclining for about 7 months prior to her death. Her only problem waspainful arthritis (which I'm hoping to avoid with CRON).In my case, I'm not aiming for a triple digit lifespan, but high quality oflife until almost the end, and no pain and suffering, are my goals. I havea mixed bag of genes, as my father and one brother died youngish, at 70 and63 respectively (heart and cancer). Both were overweight and ate badly.on 7/28/2002 7:43 AM, Eddie at vlad_storm@... wrote:> > Hi all..> > I just went to a local festival here yesterday. At one point most of the> women stood up and danced some local dances for quite a while.> > Two of the women stood out because they looked to be the oldest there.> > I wondered how old they were. I asked my mother in law how old did she think> they were.. She simply turned around and asked them..> > The first woman was ninety one. The second one, who said she was young, was> seventy eight.> > My mother in law looked and me and said quite seriously, "In Okinawa 78 is> considered young."> > Talk about a different outlook on aging..> > Ed> > >