Re: Life Expectancy

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Jun 13 1999 - 10:00:18 MDT


> spike spikulated: >One's l.q. is the average of your parents' l.q....
>
> Damien Broderick wrote: Well, there's regression to the mean to factor in...
>
> general background level of your gestational and infant nutrition and then
> the hardship of life for your cohort, the stochastic impact of disease...

Yes and since you mentioned nutrition: that Stealing Time program
mentioned that animal studies of caloric restriction seem to delay
aging. Nowthen, I wonder if this light eating could explain my
own late pubescence (16 yrs old before I could go into the locker
room without excruciating embarrassment, 19yr old junior in college
before I shaved my face for the first time). Should caloric restriction
delay *all* life developments, not just death? spike



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