[Tech Tee]

<p>Serious bummer!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/01/23/obit.jack.lalanne/index.html?hpt=T2" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/01/23/obit.jack.lalanne/index.html?hpt=T2</a></p>

 

[gretriever]

<p>Opened his first spa in 1936. When he was 21. That's hella-impressive in and of itself.</p>

 

[Rainey]

<p>I used to work with one of his kids in Malibu. 96 is in the range of a normal lifespan.(Normal means you do closer to what you are supposed to do like exercise all your life etc.)</p>
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<p>It just goes to show you that extremes of diet etc. do not extend your life forever. He claims to have NEVER having had any sugar since he started his fitness kick almost 80 years ago.</p>
<p>He went through phases with 100's of vitamins daily, all meat, no meat, lots of crazy stuff.</p>
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<p> How long do you want to live? My  GG grandpa- 88, Grandfather- 92, Father 97</p>
<p>At a minimum I would like to see 100!</p>

 

[airehead]

<p>Doctor recently told me that my numbers were perfect and if I kept it up I would live to 100.</p>
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<p>He said that as if it was a good thing.</p>
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<p>I want quality, not quantity.</p>
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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Rainey</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72319/jack-lelanne-i-thought-he-was-going-to-live-forever#post_1979128"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I used to work with one of his kids in Malibu. 96 is in the range of a normal lifespan.(Normal means you do closer to what you are supposed to do like exercise all your life etc.)</p>
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<p>It just goes to show you that extremes of diet etc. do not extend your life forever. He claims to have NEVER having had any sugar since he started his fitness kick almost 80 years ago.</p>
<p>He went through phases with 100's of vitamins daily, all meat, no meat, lots of crazy stuff.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> How long do you want to live? My  GG grandpa- 88, Grandfather- 92, Father 97</p>
<p>At a minimum I would like to see 100!</p>
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[Tech Tee]

<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Rainey</strong> <a href="/forum/thread/72319/jack-lelanne-i-thought-he-was-going-to-live-forever#post_1979128"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-right:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-bottom:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I used to work with one of his kids in Malibu. 96 is in the range of a normal lifespan.(Normal means you do closer to what you are supposed to do like exercise all your life etc.)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It just goes to show you that extremes of diet etc. do not extend your life forever. He claims to have NEVER having had any sugar since he started his fitness kick almost 80 years ago.</p>
<p>He went through phases with 100's of vitamins daily, all meat, no meat, lots of crazy stuff.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> How long do you want to live? My  GG grandpa- 88, Grandfather- 92, Father 97</p>
<p>At a minimum I would like to see 100!</p>
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I'm like an enigma with regard to my ancestors.  Both parents died young, in their mid-50s.  One set of grandparents lived to 83 and 89.  The other set lived only to their early 60s.  But they died of stuff all over the map.  Alzheimer's, ALS (Lou Gherig's), heart problems, one just sorta died (the 89 year old).  None of them had a particularly good diet, in fact some had terrible diets.  None of them exercised.  None of them drank.  None of them smoked.  Going back further, it was still all over the place.  I had a great-grandfather die in his early 60s, but, he had worked in coal mines all his life and died of "miner's asthma".  Other ancestors lived much longer, some a little longer.  It's hard to figure out.</p>
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<p>So, I have no idea what is in store for me.<br>
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[Rainey]

<p>Research shows that those that live to be 100 in the vast majority of cases expected to live that long and do not qualify it with if this and If that.</p>
<p>Those healthy enough to live that long have a better mental status in their final 5 years of life than those that who live an "average" lifespan.</p>
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<p>I could get shot on my way home from work today who knows. But I expect not only to live to be 100 and to do so without ever being hospitalized!</p>
<p>52 years and 9 months down, 48 years and 3 months to go, one day at a time.</p>
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<p>To answer your question- No I would not want to be a vegetable in a "rest home", I'd rather be dead.</p>

 

[jebba]

<p>I read an article about a family in New York City where 3-4 siblings have all live past 100.  One of the sisters, who is like 108, has smoked a pack a day since she was a young adult.</p>
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<p>Wouldn't it be nice if you could be healthy and strong and then just have your batteries wear out quickly?  Instead of a steady decline...sigh.</p>

 

[Rainey]

<p>The thing when your family has a long lifespan and delays having kids (dad 50 years older than me), sort of wierd that my grandfather was too old to fight in WW1 and my G grandfather and G granduncle both fought in the CIVIL WAR and it's only I believe 8 generations (possibly its nine) to my grandfather who fought in the Revolutionary war! </p>