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
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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
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