Comments on: Real age? http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 17 May 2013 17:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Liz http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/comment-page-1/#comment-29146 Liz Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:04:20 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=595#comment-29146 Oh, I was good on the exercise and diet stuff. Or at least those things didn’t lower my life expectancy. The big drops came from the things I mentioned above.

]]> By: Iris http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/comment-page-1/#comment-29131 Iris Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:49:29 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=595#comment-29131 Heh. I’m apparently only 6.7 years old. Please, sir, may I have a lolly pop now? Oh, and I’m going to live absolutely forever. hmmmm…

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/comment-page-1/#comment-29121 walt Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:21:14 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=595#comment-29121 Not the job (at least not at the moment). Great family history. Regular exercise. Good cholesterol, blood pressure, weight (well, could be better, but I’m still in the “normal” range) etc., etc.. Very little driving, and that always with seatbelt. Breakfast every day. Period. Three meals a day. Happily married. And I try to control stress. Did I mention great family history?

That “real age” thing is just silly, though…as Meg certainly demonstrated.

]]> By: Liz http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/comment-page-1/#comment-29120 Liz Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:04:08 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=595#comment-29120 Ok, what’s the secret? Have little stress, drive very little, and love your job? Those and family/personal blood sugar were the things that lowered my life expectancy to the low 70′s.

]]> By: Meg K. http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/comment-page-1/#comment-29114 Meg K. Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:48:04 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=595#comment-29114 That was interesting, but I’ll take my REAL real age (32) over my “real age” of 12. 12!?? My life expectancy was around 90, which is longer than any of my grandparents lived, but given a grandparent from each side of the family battled Alzheimer’s for years, isn’t necessarily desirable.

]]> By: Laura http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/real-age/comment-page-1/#comment-29112 Laura Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:50:18 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=595#comment-29112 Hmm. . . I’m supposedly 23.8 instead of 31 and will only live to be 81.2. Seems long enough to me. And I don’t particularly want to be 23 again. I think you should definitely try this out at a job interview, though–”I’ve been in the library field since age 5!”

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