THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1951.
HOW LONG WILL
W
YOU LIVE?
Single men have shorter
ITHIN certain ferent method of computing limits the life years than was later employed.
the For instance,
uke of of human Adam span
is given no 130, of beings, as of all Methuselah as 909, of Chinan other species, seems to be as 910, Jored 002, etc, set by inherited factors.
The oldest living things nre trees, the furthest limits being renched by cer 1aln
and the cypresses
with sequoias,
American
But all these were pro-Flood personages.
After the Flood we find the ages cut to about one-fourth Abrahám. 175, Irane, 180; Jacob, 147; Moses, 120-lead- ing to the be'ief that u "year" had a different meaning before and after the Deluge.
the granddaddy of all now fact, Dr Andrew living things believed to be
GI
almost 7,000-year-old
Mexico,
Efron,
reported (in 1040) a secret aucient
cil of
of
"key
trees
and
rode" of bald cypress in Tulu, central branches for enlgulating ages, and concluded that a confusion of the symbols may have led the to the miscalculations in biblical
ed in
+
but vary
Animals are narrowly limit
their life spans. these limits ikewise greatly with different species.
Under the best of conditions elephants live to be no
more horses, that about 70 years; about 35; dogs and cats, about
45; 20; parrots, about
oxen,
About 30.
fresh- Among fish, of the water species, carp, pike and almost
bies.
By proper interpretation of
shorter lives.
the Code, Dr Efron said, years is now considered about
Adam's age might be down to 90, while Noah have been 48 when ha the Ark, not 600.
catfish inoy live to be
but the ages depot A
Beli are unknown,
Tortoises appear to be the longest-lived of lower, animals, with recorded ages up to 150.
Methuselah 969
Tow tong can a man Hve? Actuaries are dublous about ancient records of longevity.
be- Figures in the Bible art lieved to be based on a dit
-THE FACTS ABOUT-
Overweight 'Faster Ilving"
• Smoking-and drinking
AND THE ANSWER TO
THE QUESTION
Does marriage increase the life span?
NZMAN WOMAN BASI 70 Years
SANDBLASTERS,
STONE-
35 Yearsom
Two British doctors
Present average human life expectancy-highest in history is about 68 years. But Britain's champion was Thomas Parr-reputed to have died at the age of 152..
All of this darings how- Let us say, then, that 115
evert mes be secipica in Chunian light of much maximumot. scaled the would longevity.
The present average life ex bulit
pretancy, highest in history, is Still far short of thisg about; B > cars.
Today's average
:
com-
S we come down to
puratively recet:1 times we find that only obscure per- tons, usually in off-the-track credited focalities, have been with phenomenal ages.
Britain's champion Is listed As Thomas Parr ("Old Parr"), a Shropshire farmer who died in 1635 at the alleged age 152.
More
have recently We
your heard of a Turk 159 "4138 Russian
years old," a old," and
American slave "125 years old."
on
A BULLITT GETS
LOOSE IN
THE CHINA SHOP
By PETER RUSSO
FROM time to time our Bullitt's status. The
i
• fur
Nevertheless, there are some families whose members, successive generations, live un this an average well beyond age, and offer. familles Tor which the average Jongevity. I consistently lower.
Throughout your life your sex will be the most important single influence on your He span, with le nivantage over- whelming in your favouri female.
you are
20- -average.
There is a silent felation between the life
spans of grandparents, parents, and children:
The Andings have been such at theres-
The cliance of reaching the four score mark is considerably greater. for those with
iived parents than for the others,
Children of one Jong-livec and one short-lived parent oc- cupy an Intermediate position
athers
the cther or dener that differences in social and economic levels, and in occupa- tion, help greatly to make some Families longer-lived than
higher the income und The social level, the lower the mor- tality rate, and the longer the lower average life span; the
lovel, the income and social the higher the mortality rate, the shorter the life span.
WH
Live longer
ore
POTTERY CUTTERS. WORKERS and MINERS
mong those with the highest death rates,
Does your body build have any relation to your longevity?
extent Yes, but only to the that it reflects good health or lack of it, or the efficiency or inefficiency 'of the body mechanism.
..
Persons who are 25 percent or more overweight bave death rate' obout 75 percent higher than those of average weight,
The
situation
regarding HERE heredity muy Alsa
heigh
is compleated. In those enter the picture indirect- under 40, tali men are report y is in the matter of one's oc- ed as having the highest mur cupation.
lowest tality, short men the Here is a classifention chart mortality, but in ages there chowing occupational differen- after the reverse begins to ap- ces in longevity:
ply, with short men having the CLERGYMEN live consider-highest mortality. ably longer than average lay- Dogs faster living," overwork,
༈
Yes. Studies of scre persons aged 90 or over dicated that, besides heredity, the only, outstanding
They live more temperately, or strain shorton Ilfe? long-
enjoy good medical attention, rid have fewer uceldents.
DOCTORS have a mortality
higher rate soinewhat
tha most other proferslon (especially in heart
trial discs). with rates below average for
a n Amongs
over? very old age You or about seven out of eight have had one o more long-lived parents and a large proportion two or more long-fived grand- parents,
When 25
Un-COLLECTIVELY
but
W
2,000
10-
trait that were "of
hong them was
vast
majority
placfd temperament, not given
cancer and much lower Id: to, worry.
Infectious diseases surgical to your blood pressure or your conditions, and accidents.
pulse rate." any Glue to your
Specialists have much better length-of-life, prospects?
*ife.
fe expectancies than #pecialists.
-- Variou3
ان
non-
Yes, Insurance experts re-
that port
"mortality rises LAWYERS have among the steadily and markedly with lowest death rates in the pro- increasing high blood pressure. fessional
Low blood pressure, however, group ENGINEERS and BCIEN- unless it is extremely low, on TISTS are studies indicate that the
actually behind the average may be somewhat them in longevity,
favourable to longevity. expectation patriots hurl indignant happy part is that only by difference in
re- life at age 25 between persons WOMEN TEACHERS have Docs marrlags increase life thunderbolts at anyone who holding our noses and would criticise American sorting to similar agties with better records of paren among the lowest rates for apan?
tal longevity and those with policies. We are becoming can we clarify this double the poorer records may be anywhere from two to four too cowed even to respond talk and its motives.
years. when American spokesmen,
No mention is made in forever seeking a scapegoat, Mr Bullitt's article of the THE AVERAGE FUTURE ERS, ACTORS, leave their political babies shock-cabled by American LIFE EXPECTANCY IS:
on Britain's doorstep.
In the July issue of discovered that the enemy "Reader's Digest" the main was equipped with article is about Hongkong latest American woapons. and it is by William C. Bul- litt, former U.S. Ambas- sador to the Soviet Union and to France.
*
ALL
LL those Panamanian
women in any decupation.
"Married men, it appears, do MEN TEACHERS also have have average longer lives than much *belter thon average single men. longevity.
-married Among women, the ARTISTS, WRIT-“ have an advantage in longevity over the unmarried only up to mortality MUSICIANS POETS the age of 40, tho hute
practi averaged life rates thereafter bung
for the
two spans
well below cally identical those of professional groups.
usually
Déco drinking alcoholla boverages_shortan life?
men-hortest- being the lived of these.
FARMERS are par Authorities are in disagree-
ticularly long-lived," "ment. The present majority
either because farm
-
agencies when U.N. forcés
If one's present
For
hales
For
females
rinore
the uge fa
years)
(more. Hears)
10
57.07
06.07
52.43
55,00
20
47.9%
5145
43.55
47.01
30
30.12
42.56 life tends to promote
35
34.67
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40
30.30
health and strength, 33.64 dr because mén hava
45
26,05
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22.01
20.04
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.7.81
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: incomes
3.53
3.75
ships which have been milliona of unloading Claiming
war equipment readers in a dozen different along the China coast as languages, the "Digest" well as at Hongkong surely assumes or should assume did not get their responsibility for clear from the roaring.
and informed thinking.
Mr Bullitt's article leads
in as follows: "The island (Hongkong) has delivered
lined industries of a back-
ward Central American Re- public.
The Soviet Union's large dolar holdings, the envy er America's
CL fabulous stream of alter, were surely not run up an
Russian printing presses a
written off
wealth to the British since from the amount et "smugging" frat they seized it in 1839 they finance in Europe, can they as a base from which to be
23 propaganda. sinuggle opinin into China. There junks, arcule o China,
"Last year they made more money than ever be fore by selling Communist China tho
and goods inaterials she needed to make war in Korea,”
which are constantly tercepted by Hongkong patrols, were loaded in Fermosa, or from ships. in mid-ceron, but surely the goods were not manufactured in Fermosa e cen board ship.
Just like that. The rest of the article is a brief TH
THOSE of 1s who were in. China through the Civil "history" of Hongkong, war remembis Mr Bulilit for bi ending on the nayscating Repeat on China, and the canay and self-righteous moral way he get his information from Nationalist Tatistics, with Na- note to which we are be- tionalist guides and through Nu- coming accustomed.
tionalist eyes.
Despite the Grande warning. of experienced correspondents, Americans in the majority, that
WE are getting hardened "p" 45 Natanabis China was
to the personal ancars used, or borewed by the Com
being methodically bouth, cap- and half-truths which have munists, Mr Bull's deeport become such a popular cavisaged a Thrie-year Plan to feature of present-day drive
he roll of China, dent every armed Communta politics. To some extent: wo
Charming and can sympathiso with thi empliery with which Mr Dulls views the world's probums in- purveyors, for they reflect
spired that famous crack by a
only the frustrations of ignicy conservative American cor- noranco or Incompotence, aripandent from a very conter=
we expect more then get prens the
of vicious mast
Ameriden, paps
HANAMENGUSUREÉR
ozone correspondents
To Lowi's version MAN,
COMMON
hey
Maybe irry'd
prefer him to
that
opinion appears to be drinking. In moderation does not affect longevity.
Heavy drinking, however, 19 another matter. It and quite to be healthier.
10 curtailed strenger to continue. Eenerally leads
life. farmers. UNSKILLED How about smoking?
LABOURERS
have
the highest mortality, rate, going with Tow
and
G!
Except in certain conditions (ulcers, heart, etc.) there no evidence that
ordinarily un smoking favourable environ longevity. ments
EDITOR'S NOTE:
look like John Bull-· Hist fellow who
•Took so many firm stands that he
got rooted.
Pahl this criticism is probably just a Young, Ray plot clain all charm
Intellect and character
sttypical Comcivalive.
Perhaps. They'd like him as that massive dignitad
Worker the Communists
SERVE UP-
all muscles
and no brains
AVERAGE
affects
have
found strong evidence heavy smoking is responsibie
that
deaths
for the increase in from cancer of the Mr Marquand, Health ler, has ordered the Standing Cancer
and Radio Therapy Advisory Committee to make an immediate investigation, Do athletes have shorter lives
than non-athletes?
they Popular belief is that
sup- do, but the facts don't ' port this.
hears Que
various other. theories: Brunettes live longer "over-sexed" blondes; thun
lives; people have shortened premature Krey cary death; bold-headed men die before those not bald; men with more hair on their chest outlive those with little
ele
hair
means
hair,
Not one of these theories bas yet been found to have any scientific basis.
World Copyright) NEXT WEEK How smart will your "child" be? Are men
more intellectual
thari women?
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