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jackrichinsSep 3, 2010
Eat more sushi!
antialiasSep 3, 2010
It isn't surprising that this would remain constant over such a short period of time. Longevity has far more to do with genetics than lifestyle and 25 years constitutes only 1-2 generations. Even factoring in the most common death factors like cancer and heart disease, those who avoid the risky lifestyle choices still may not live as long as someone who smokes or eats unhealthily but has grandparents who lived to 100.
Also with Japan being such a homogenous society any genetic traits for longer life are likely to be passed on.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
kolop1Sep 4, 2010
Wow, you have no idea how genetics work do you?
jadrianSep 3, 2010
Buuuuls**t!
Families just don't declare them dead to keep getting their pension:
"Japan, Checking on Its Oldest, Finds Many Gone"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html
"...police found the body of a man thought to be one of Japan’s oldest, at 111 years, mummified in his bed, dead for more than three decades.(...) A woman thought to be Tokyo’s oldest, who would be 113, was last seen in the 1980s. Another woman, who would be the oldest in the world at 125, is also missing"Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
lbvisionsSep 3, 2010
how did you know about this?
stanstutteringSep 4, 2010
It was on Reddit a couple of weeks ago.
j1337Sep 4, 2010
"It turns out that women above age 103 and men above age 98 are excluded from longevity statistics, on grounds that they are statistical outliers. Furthermore, the census conducted every five years is conducted by visiting households, not by consulting the family registry records, so the missing elderly would not be included in that regardless."
http://www.mutantfrog.com/2010/08/16/japans-life-expentancy-actually-longer-than-we-thought/
jadrianSep 13, 2010
Ah I did not know that.
lbvisionsSep 3, 2010
@jadrian good work did you just happen to look it up or you had info from another source?
outontheporchSep 4, 2010
New Digg sucks. I'm sad because as the community that made Digg what it is slowly gets phased out, a new generation will take its place and will know only the spoon feeding of spam and linkbait by big media outlets.
RIP. On to reddit.
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I hear you (assuming you're talking tongue-in-cheek). I haven't been on here in years, and somehow my account/password/crap was all jacked, so I had to start a whole new account... And what do I get for my efforts? A site dilapidated by spam...
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Closed AccountSep 4, 2010
I can't believe how quickly digg managed to kill a community.
blackrockySep 4, 2010
I'm going to a Japanese place for lunch.. should do it more often
kroge86Sep 4, 2010
Life expectancy is heavily influenced by race, healthcare quality is a smaller factor. Japanese people's life expectancy is proof of this, because they are known for their longevity no matter what country they live in, no matter what healthcare system they live under.
Japanese people live as long in the US as they do in Japan, kind of refuting the claim that America's life expectancy is low due to healthcare. It's due to race. The high rate of blacks and Hispanics in the US lowers the US national average, and would lower it no matter what health system we had in place.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
j1337Sep 4, 2010
Some guy writes a blog post summarizing a news story that is over a month old, and it's front page material? [At less than 80 diggs!]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100726/ap_on_he_me/as_japan_life_expectancy
Somebody, please fix digg. The front page algorithm is clearly broken.
Closed AccountSep 4, 2010
HAVE YOU EVER HAD A C**K, FORGET ABOUT A PENIS, HAVE YOU EVER HAD A C**K IN YOUR PHARYNX YOUR LARYNX OR YOUR TRACHEAR?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
sexyboboSep 4, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7923985/Tokyos-oldest-person-goes-missing.html
Japan gives money to their old people and don't try to verify that they are still alive of course the japan is going to have an obscene amount of really old people that are "still alive"
inkabadgerSep 4, 2010
Does this average account for the 100 or so who are 100 years or over and not accounted for? After that story broke about the mummy case they've been going apes**t checking up on them all.
WHITE64LILLYSep 5, 2010
THATS TRUE SO HOW DO THEY DO IT ?
twinbaby02Sep 7, 2010
Because Japanese Women eat healthy foods and the weather in japan are nice to live to.
andyd273Sep 7, 2010
Old people in Japan are a little bit like Schrodinger Grandma: Both dead and alive, until you go looking to see if the checks are being cashed by the correct person, or if their kids stuffed their bones into a knapsack and are defrauding the government.