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I am going to talk about longevity.

The word longevity is sometimes


used as a synonym for life expectancy in demography. Demography
is the statistical study of populations, especially the human beings.
Longevity
In these days people are living longer, a person could live more
than 100 years old today. Apparently, this is caused by a gene.
In the past, a long and heathy life seems an impossible
achievement, but now it is possible. In fact, there are many people
over the age of 80 who has no chronic diseases.
There are some places with communities, where healthy old age is
typical. People from these communities think that the secret of
their long life is their diet and lifestyle.
This information is unreliable; therefore, scientists are looking to
genetic factors.
Scientists found out that longevity is also due to environmental
factors. Also researches concluded that in 19th century there were
genetic factors that benefit the men centenarians more than the
women, but today the results are in a different way, today genetic
factors benefit woman.

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