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...Life expectancy calculators are] just a repackaged way of telling you what you already know, and that is, 'Eat less, don't smoke,'" says S. Jay Olshansky, a professor in the school of public health at University of Illinois at Chicago. "But what they're really meant to do is encourage people to lead healthier lifestyles, and that's a good thing...
...Most of the free online calculators ask users to answer a number of questions related to their family histories, their own medical histories and various behaviors including what they eat, how they drive and how much they sleep. The decidedly ominous Death Clock calculator generates a countdown timer with the number of seconds the user has left to live, but other sites display an age someone with characteristics like the user can expect to attain...
...online calculators can be useful if they provide suggestions on how to lead a healthier life, Olshansky says. He recommended the Living to 100 life expectancy site, which provides detailed information on changes you can make - everything from what foods to eat to how much you should sleep - based upon your answers to a series of questions. The tools also can help teach the public how to weigh risk factors, said University of Pennsylvania Prof. Dean Foster, co-author of another calculator. "How good is excercise or how bad is smoking?" Foster asks. "Would you walk a mile...
...Yris Machado, 41, a widow, could only feed her four children one meal a day until a Chavez-backed program began supplying her with food staples. Now, she and her children eat three times a day. She is also beginning to benefit from a government program called "Mothers of the Barrio," which gives stipends to poor mothers with handicapped children. She will use the extra funds to help pay for anti-convulsive drugs and a new mattress for her daughter, who has Down syndrome. "Thanks to my president, now I can say that I'm going...
...proud of one thing,” Girard told the audience, while holding up a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records. “I got in this book, and I didn’t have to eat 10,000 bananas to get in this thing...