X-Message-Number: 13098 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:45:33 -0800 From: Olaf Henny <> Subject: How to live to 100 :) Hi All: Late October I moved from Vancouver to somewhere in the boonies of British Columbia. Missing the all day news casts, which were available to me in the City, I have started watching the Deutsche Welle, a German 24 hour station with news and cultural programming for international audiences. They have a series of inteviews with senior citicens. - very senior citicens. You have to be at least a hundred to qualify for their attention. A few days ago their guest was a spry old professional gardener, who retired at the age of 103 from his business and now at the age of 107 lives with his daughter in one of these care homes, where you have your own suite, but can take your meals in a dining room with the rest of the residents, where he is some kind of darling of the "young chicks", two to three decades his junior. He walks up and down the stairs on his "393 paces" long hike in either direction and attributes his long life (and by the looks of it he has still a number of years ahead of him) to remaining active and "eating lots of wurst with my bread". You cannot deny, that the fellow must have done something right, but I get a chuckle, that he credits the ingestion of lots of cholestrol for his superior health and longevity. :) Makes you wonder if all that CR is really worth it. Maybe Tom Mathews should spread butter over his beans more often, than just with his x-mas dinner, and is it really worthwhile for Brian Manning Delaney to resist his craving for chooocooolaaate? Just thinking, Olaf Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13098