For kids born in 1980 in the US, life...

Life expectancy rose in the US between 1980 and...

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VIDEO: A large research study looked at income tax returns and death certificates and found a huge disparity in life expectancy between the richest and poorest Americans.

The World Economic Forum ranked places by...

Ageing is an inevitable fact of life. But...

Ever ask someone how their family member passed...

What if our bodies didn't keep deteriorating...

VIDEO: A large research study looked at income tax returns and death certificates and found a huge disparity in life expectancy between the richest and poorest Americans.

Here's some good news: people around the world...

Chances are, most of us haven't asked ourselves...

VIDEO: The first step -- watching what we eat.

A gunman used an assault weapon to kill 11 people and wound six others in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Police identified Robert Bowers as a suspect in what is reportedly the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history. Nearly […]

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VIDEO: Futurist and famed inventor Ray Kurzweil talks about the future of health and medicine and his case for why we should live forever.

Americans today live longer and...

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Next time you find yourself standing in front of the bathroom sink, take a couple minutes to floss. Your older self will thank you.

Good social lives are linked to healthy ageing.

Death is going to happen anyway, so why wouldn’t I want to know when it will?

Prolonging life.

A longer life expectancy.

Life expectancy increased in the US from 1990 to 2016. Today, overall average life expectancy is up to 78.9 years old. But researchers are worried that increasingly, Americans are smoking and drinking too much, eating bad food, and suffering from more drug use disorders. It’s all having an effect on […]

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BI Answers.

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At 90, Monaco has the highest life expectancy.

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Mankind evolving.

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The World Health Organisation just released its...

Life expectancy is an incredibly important...

America has a very expensive health care system — the country spends almost twice as much per person on health care as similar nations. That might be fine if the results were twice as good. However, time and time again data proves that this isn’t true. The latest example of […]

In the United States, the life expectancy for both men and women is now slightly shorter than the OECD average, despite spending the most on health per person, according to a new OECD report, Health at a Glance 2013 [PDF]. Life expectancy in the United States is still going up […]

Alarming accuracy.

Avoid the ravages of age.

Which ones are you guilty of?

And ageing "off" switch.

Low expectations for a happy future might actually propel you into old age.

[credit provider=”Abhisek Sarda via www.flickr.com creative commons” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/reallynuts/4540629736/”] The narrator of Joseph O’Neill’s 2008 novel Netherland, a banker who has lived in both London and New York, seems permanently torn between the two – not merely as places to live, but because they embody different approaches to life itself. In […]

[credit provider=””>Daniel Goodman / Business Insider”] Americans die younger than people in other wealthy countries — and the gap is getting worse, a new report shows.Men in the USA have shorter lives than men in 16 developed nations. American women also fall near the bottom of the list, living 5.2 […]

[credit provider=”Wikimedia” url=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overweight_biker.jpg”] Being fat is bad for you. That, at least, is the received wisdom.In reality the picture is more complex, because the prevailing measure of fatness, weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared, known as the body-mass index (BMI), is imperfect and because bad for you […]

[credit provider=”Jean-Christophe BENOIST, Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_-_Times_Square.JPG”] New Yorkers are living longer than Americans overall, and the margin is increasing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, as he praised his administration’s health policies.A New Yorker born in 2010 has a life expectancy of 80.9 years, 2.2 years longer than the national life expectancy […]

[credit provider=”Flickr / o5com” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/o5com/5126947030/in/photostream/”] Having children increases the life expectancy and mental health of both men and women, a new study suggests.Aarhus University researchers in Denmark admit that this is not the first time the connection has been made, but point out that the link between children and longer […]

[credit provider=””>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bees_with_Pollen_landing.jpg”] Honey bees given a compound found in red wine ate less and lived longer in a new study.The research, published in the journal ageing, shows the compound, resveratrol, extends the lifespan of honey bees up to 38 per cent and also triggers a “moderation effect,” causing the bees […]

[credit provider=”BH301.A7 on flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/crosier/2542265945/”] Today’s generation of less educated whites are living shorter lives than their parents’ generations did, a new study suggests. This is a striking change from previous generations, which have been increasing their longevity for decades.”We’re used to looking at groups and complaining that their mortality […]

[credit provider=”flickr/elviskennedy” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/elviskennedy/5697684827/sizes/l/in/photostream/”] An evolutionary “loophole” might explain why males of many species live shorter lives than their female counterparts, a new study finds.The loophole lies in the mitochondria, the energy-generating parts of our cells. The mitochondria have their own DNA, separate from the DNA that resides in the nucleus […]

[credit provider=”Paula Bronstein / Getty Images”] TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese women lost their longevity crown last year after 26 years at the top of world life expectancy rankings, the government said on Thursday, blaming the 2011 earthquake and tsunami for the drop.The health and labour ministry said the disaster, which […]

People don’t peak emotionally, physically, sexually or creatively in their 20s, according to this infographic by Euro RSCG Worldwide.

[credit provider=”imdb.com” url=”http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1413712384/tt1151922″] The children and grandchildren of men who wait until they’re 40 to reproduce tend to have longer lives.Children of older fathers, between late 30’s and early-50’s, inherit longer telomeres, caps at the end of chromosomes that keep them from degenerating, according to a new study by Dan […]

[credit provider=”Fabrizio Lonzi via flickr ” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabbriciuse/3621059597/”] Yesterday I posted 10 things should you do every day to improve your life.There are a number of other things research says we can do to make life better but we don’t need to do them every day:

[credit provider=”s_bukley / Shutterstock.com”] The epic hunt for the Fountain of Youth — the legendary pool of water that supposedly halts the ageing process in its tracks — has eluded scientists for thousands of centuries.And while the mythical spring may never amount to more than the stuff of bedtime stories […]

[credit provider=”Getty Images/Jed Jacobsohn”] A new study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) suggests former NFL players live longer than average males from the general population.Mike Freeman of CBS Sports obtained a copy of an email the NFL sent to more than 3,000 players who played […]

[credit provider=”Flickr via yourdon” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/2594767344/in/photostream/”] Light jogging just once a week can add about six years to your life expectancy, according to a recent study, the Daily Mail reports.  Jogging at a slow pace for one to two hours a week added an average of 5.6 years for woman and […]

A new note out from Credit Suisse attempts to explain the social, economic, and market implications of longevity.

[credit provider=”Flickr / Alex E. Proimos” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/proimos/6074320007/in/photostream/”] Living to 100 will cost you a shocking $3.5 million over your lifetime, reports SmartMoney’s Jonnelle Marte.Using data from the U.S. Bureau of labour Statistics, Marte revealed that nearly half of that $3.5 million will be spent by your 50th birthday. 

Venture capitalist and billionaire Peter Thiel is financing medical research that would possibly extend the human lifespan to 150 years or more.

[credit provider=”Candida.Performa via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/3937474049/sizes/l/in/photostream/”] With better health care and technological advances, humans are living longer and longer.But your chances of living longer than the nationwide average of 74 years is better in some states than in others.

[credit provider=”AP”] Despite the well-known fact that everyone alive today will kick the bucket at one point or another, nearly 60 per cent of Americans admitted they didn’t have a will in a 2011 poll conducted by online legal service RocketLawyer.In fact, one-third said they’d rather do their taxes, get […]

[credit provider=”www.skinnyvscurvy.com” url=”http://www.skinnyvscurvy.com”] The epic hunt for the Fountain of Youth — the legendary pool of water that supposedly halts the ageing process in its tracks — has eluded scientists for thousands of centuries.And while the mythical spring may never amount to more than the stuff of bedtime stories and […]

[This essay was lifted from comments by reader Run 75441 on Peak life expectancy.] We do wear out after a period of time. I suspect how quickly we wear out could be based upon life style, income, and diet. Obesity in the latest generation of children has led to an […]

[credit provider=”AP” url=”http://www.apimages.com/OneUp.aspx?st=k&kw=elderly&showact=results&sort=relevance&intv=None&sh=10&kwstyle=and&adte=1311271634&pagez=60&cfasstyle=AND&rids=dc77b1c262e5da11af9f0014c2589dfb&dbm=PY2000&page=1&xslt=1&mediatype=Photo”] With rapidly developing economies, improving incomes and quality of life, life expectancy is improving around the world. The speed and degree of these changes, however, are markedly different.In a new report, Credit Suisse looks at how higher life expectancy has changed economic activities for both men and […]

Human life expectancy has steadily increased over modern history.

[credit provider=”AP Photo”] How do you define quality of life?We considered happiness, longevity and ecological footprint, data which is gathered and indexed at The Happy Planet 2.0.

[credit provider=”Wikimedia Commons” url=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_Hilton_3.jpg”] We’ve known for a long time that the world’s rich live longer than everyone else – they eat better food, have more time to exercise, get sick less, and when they do get sick, they have better health care.But scientists have just discovered that people who […]