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Old 09-21-2012, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
Oh. I kinda lean toward the New England Journal of Medicine or Lancet. Or Science or ...folks who have a track record for being mighty careful with words and research.
The problem is we don't have the details of how the study was conducted. One thing we know is that they studied centenarians. People who already made it to advanced old age. And then there was a control group. Were they centenarians too? Important details seem to be missing.

It would be more believeable if they had started with 70 or 75 year olds and then predicted who would live to be healthy centenarians. Then follow them as they age and see how they do. At least it would be more understandable.