X-Message-Number: 13100 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:07:27 -0500 From: "Raphael T. Haftka" <> Subject: How to live to 100 Olaf Henry tells the story of a gentleman 107 years old who credits his long life to eating a lot of wurst. This is a good reminder that medicine and nutrition cannot still compete with good genes. I have read that until 1900, a visit to the doctor did on average more harm than good. Even now, as a recent post mentioned, there is little correlation between health expenditures in a country or a state and life expectancy. So medicine has still a long way to go! Rafi Haftka ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Raphael (Rafi) Haftka University of Florida phone:352-392-9595 Department of Aerospace Engineering, fax: -7303 Mechanics and Engineering Science Box 116250 http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~haftka Gainesville, FL 32611 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13100