S. Jay Olshansky Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.”

“Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.”

“Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.”

“Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.”

“In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.”

“In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.”

“We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.”

“A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.”

“Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.”

“Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.”