Live To Be 100: It's Your Attitude
December 10th 2010 19:00
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50,000 centenarians in the U.S., could be 800,000 by 2050
Exercising and eating right are fine, researchers say, but the key to living a very long life has a lot to do with attitude.
That's according to a study in the most recent issue of Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research. The study, conducted at the Institute of Gerontology in the UGA College of Public Health, looked at data collected surveys of 244 people who lived to 100 or older. What they found was that how these people adapted to stressful situations in their lives were signs of how they would successfully age.
It also turned out that the subjects' feelings about their lives — health, family and friends — were better predictors of their longevity than such factors as blood pressure and blood sugar.
Leonard Poon, director of the institute and lead researcher of the study, said in a press release that when problems arise, one can either find a quick solution or ruminate on it. "One is very destructive in terms of general well-being," he said, "and the other is very adaptive."
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