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...experts are trying to unravel and understand the biological factors that allow some people to reach 100 while others drop off in their 70s or 80s. Researchers are particularly interested in determining which factors allow up to 30% of those who reach 100 to do so in sufficient mental and physical health: a whopping 90% of centenarians, according to Perls, remain functionally independent up to age 92. "It's not 'the older you get, the sicker you get,' but 'the older you get, the healthier you've been,'" he says. "The advantage of living to 100 is not so much...
Scientists working for the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Japan's Ministry of Health have been following oldsters like Toguchi since 1976 in the Okinawa Centenarian Study (OCS) and they've learned that he's typical. Elderly Okinawans tend to get plenty of physical and mental exercise. Their diets, moreover, are exemplary: low in fat and salt, and high in fruits and vegetables packed with fiber and antioxidant substances that protect against cancer, heart disease and stroke. They consume more soy than any other population on earth: 60-120 g a day, compared...
Doctors still don't know what exactly causes schizophrenia, a devastating mental illness characterized by extremely disordered thinking. They're pretty sure that some kind of genetic predisposition is at work. But they also suspect that environmental triggers--particularly at critical moments during the brain's development before birth--play a role. That's why the results of a study published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry are so intriguing. For the first time, researchers have direct evidence that exposure to influenza in utero is tied to a greater likelihood that an individual will someday develop schizophrenia...
...that required dexterity and precision. Hence China's dominance in gymnastics and diving, Japan's killer hold in judo or South Korea's command over archery and Taekwondo. Asians sometimes performed respectably in middle- and long-distance track competitions, but there was a tendency to chalk this up to mental toughness, not their natural physical gifts. "Asians are not as inherently talented in sports that require speed, energy and power," contends Wei Hongquan, a publicity official with China's State General Administration of Sport. Even Suetsugu himself appears to give credence to these stereotypes, lamenting: "I don't have...
...show, !Huff (or should it be !Buff?), which premieres on Showtime Nov. 7. Azaria plays Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a well-to-do Los Angeles psychiatrist whose life revolves around a bevy of people plagued by varying degrees of insanity. His schizophrenic brother lives behind locked doors in a private mental institution. His best friend, a lawyer, asks him to lie under oath. His mother Izzy, a manipulative, acidic and passive-aggressive divorce played by Blythe Danner, occupies the apartment above Huff's garage and makes a sport of tormenting his wife. Then there are the patients. One of them, Monique...