Will You Live To Be 100?*
Do you smoke or chew tobacco, or are you around a lot of secondhand smoke? Yes (-20) No (0) Do you cook your fish, poultry, or meat until it is charred? Yes (-2) No (0) Do you avoid butter, cream, pastries, and other saturated fats as well as fried foods (e.g., French Fries)? Yes (+3) No (-7) Do you minimize meat in your diet, preferably making a point to eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and bran instead? Yes (+5) No (-4) Do you consume more than two drinks of beer, wine, and/or liquor a day? (A standard drink is one 12-ounce bottle of beer, one wine cooler, one five-ounce glass of wine, or one and a half ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits.) Yes (-10) No (0) Do you drink beer, wine, and/or liquor in moderate amounts (one or tow drinks/day)? Yes (+3) No (0) Do air pollution warnings occur where you live? Yes (-4) No (+1) A. Do you drink more than 16 ounces of coffee a day? Yes (-3) No (0)
B. Do you drink tea daily? Yes (+3) No (0)Do you take an aspirin a day? Yes (+4) No (0) Do you floss your teeth every day? Yes (+2) No (-4) Do you have a bowel movement less frequently than once every two days? Yes (-4) No (0) Have you had a stroke or heart attack? Yes (-10) No (0) Do you try to get a suntan? Yes (-4) No (+3) Are you more than 20 pounds overweight? Yes (-10) No (0) Do you live near enough other family members (other than your spouse and dependent children) that you can and want to drop by spontaneously? Yes (+5) No (-4) Which statement applies to you?
A. "Stress eats away at me. I can't seem to shake it off." Yes (-7)
B. "I can shed stress." This might be by praying, exercising, meditating, finding humor in everyday life, or other means. Yes (+7)Did both of your parents either die before age 75 of nonaccidental causes or require daily assistance by the time they reached age 75? Yes (-10) No (0) Don't know (0) Did more than one of the following relatives live to at least age 90 in excellent health: parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents? Yes (+24) No (0) Don't know (0) A. Are you a couch potato (do no regular aerobic or resistance exercise)? Yes (-7)
B. Do you exercise at least three times a week? Yes (+7)Do you take vitamin E (400-800 IU) and selenium (100-200 mcg) every day? Yes (+5) No (-3)
Step 1. Add the negative and positive scores together. Example: -35 plus +40 = 5. Divide the preceding score by 5 (5 divided by 5 = 1).
Step 2. Add the negative or positive number to age 84 if you are a man or age 88 if you are a woman (example: 1 + 84 = 85) to get your estimated life span.
As for me, well, I could live longer. Everything above was a direct copy of the page, except I changed the values in the example to my score. I've been starting to feel old lately, but if this study has any accuracy, I'll be around for another 60 years. I guess I don't have to be in a hurry to move on in life after all...but I'm still impatient.
6 comments:
How about
"Do you have any mortal enemies?"
Yes (-35) No (0)
or
"Do you eat at the cafeteria?"
Yes (-7) No (+7)
or for me, it would be
"Do you eat?"
You should check out this link, it's a whole lot quicker and more pleasing to the eye...
http://www.deathclock.com/
Hehe I checked deathclock years ago and it told me I'd be in my eighties. I'm not entirely happy about that. All the women in my family tend to go a bit batty a decade or so earlier. I'm going to be a dribbly, cranky old woman. Probably without teeth. But with lots of cats.
If that death clock is right, I'll be dying much earlier than I thought...*gulp*
Rossie, take the advice of the questionaire. Smoke, drink accessively, don't exercise, eat all the unhealthy food you want/can, be a couch potato, and ooh, don't forget to not
floss!
If I don't do that, I'll live till I'm 94! I don't want to get that old!
http://www.okcupid.com/death That's a pretty good quizette thingamajiggy. Tells you how long you will live to and what you might die of.
Takes into consideration a whole lot of factors. Check it out.
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