Word: vaillant
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Another speaker, George E. Vaillant '55, Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, spoke about how self-care can prolong life. Vaillant is the director of the "Grant" Study of Adult Development, which has kept tabs on a group of male Harvard graduates of the same...
...Vaillant used slides to show various risk factors included in the Grant Study. From 1940-1942, 204 graduates were studied. By 1968-1970, 188 of those graduates were still living. In 1985, 171 were still living. When the graduates were 40-years-old, virtually all of the men had remained in the study; when the men were 65-years-old, only 74 of them were chronically ill or dead, and 22 of the men were in "excellent" health...