Students to help unlock the secrets of longevity.Living in just one tiny region of Italy are 20 times the number of centenarians Here is a list of well-known centenarians (people who lived to be or are living at 100 years or more of age), with the still living ones bolded and italicized. This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian (mostly) became well-known. than the average for the developed world. An island off the South American coast has a 66 percent higher proportion of centenarians than the U.S. And inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. of some small islands in southern Japan live the longest, healthiest lives in the world. These longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. hotspots are at the center of the latest LifeQuest Interactive Expedition. Created and led by exploration/adventure buff Dan Buettner Dan Buettner (born 1960 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American explorer, educator, author, public speaker and co-producer of an Emmy Award-winning documentary who also holds three world records for endurance bicycling. , the Quests are built around a central mystery or series of related mysteries. K-12 classrooms get in on the action via the LifeQuest Web site featuring daily updates written by the expedition team from the field. The interactive component of the longevity study--which ties into science, language arts language arts pl.n. The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school. and health standards through a free curriculum guide--gives students opportunities to affect the expedition's logistics and scientific developments, and to share in ethical debates. Two accompanying components of the program are getting students even more closely involved in solving the mysteries of healthy aging. With the Health Tracker tool, they will track key behaviors contributing to childhood obesity childhood obesity Public health Overweight in a child, an average BMI of ≥ 85% for age and sex; ≥ 95% for age and sex is very obese. See Body-mass index, Obesity. Cf Adult obesity. and, consequently, a shortened lifespan. After the Quest, classroom data will be aggregated and conclusions drawn about the impact of the Quest on health-related behaviors connected to childhood obesity. Meanwhile, the BRIDGE project has students identifying and interviewing "super seniors" within their own communities that are leading vital lives beyond age 85. The data will be entered into a national database available to both scientists and students. The National Institute on Aging The National Institute on Aging is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland. Formed in 1974, NIA's mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research. It is the primary U.S. already has plans for that data; researchers there will use it to help identify America's most vital seniors and what has contributed to their longevity. Materials related to this LifeQuest are available online beginning April 1, and the first expedition is set to begin on May 2. Other expeditions will follow this fall and in 2006 and 2007. www.thequestnetwork.com |
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