Everyday Systems

A little off-topic for this forum, maybe, but interesting.

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/l ... o_100.html

This is written by the guy who wrote this for National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0511/feature1/

He's written a book about it:
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Zone-Lessons ... 1426202741

I've read both the National Geographic and the AARP Magazine articles. I'll probably check out the book.

Not so off topic. This came through my email today:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/252

"Dr. Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase. And new findings show that a healthier lifestyle can turn off disease-provoking genes and turn on the good ones."

Notice the weasel word "can" though. No guarantees, especially when the findings are based on laboratory research. But, to the degree that No S and the attendant good habits help us do all those healthy things, at the very least our quality of life will be better even if the quantity doesn't change that much.