Longevity?
Most of us probably want to live long. What are the factors contributing to longevity? We already know that unhealthy lifestyles can reduce our lifespans: inadequate exercise, imprudent diet, and inadvisable smoking, potentially resulting in heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. What else? How about genes?
Researchers from Israel, Sweden, China, and the Netherlands, decided to take another look at this and published their results in the prestigious journal, Science,
Wonder!
Writes The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank:
I just had a most eventful week. I watched in horror as a terrible storm in the Mediterranean dashed a ship against a rocky coast, forcing its crew and passengers into a desperate attempt to save themselves and rescue their cargo. I soared with the birds among snow-covered peaks in the Rockies, marveling at the many shades of white and blue. And I joined picnickers on a serene hillside along the Hudson River, where I watched
Drink?
An Airline Water Study was released recently by the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity (CFM&L). The news ain’t good.
The study ranked 10 major and 11 regional airlines for their water quality on flights, as gauged during the last three years. Each airline was given a Water Safety Score (from 0, lowest, to 5, highest). Five criteria were assessed: violations per aircraft, violations for E. coli bacteria, public notices per 100 aircraft, indicator-positive
Gray?
Those gray hairs we don’t like? That we like to dye and color black (or something else)? Well, they may be doing us good.
You (and I) have hair follicles—hair factories. And stem cells in those hair follicles are the factory workers responsible for initiating and maintaining hair growth. They keep on dividing and multiplying, almost permanently, unlike mature cells that are doomed to die. Among these stem cells are the melanocyte stem cells—painters!—that can, in
Psalm 1:1–6
The fertile stasis of the righteous—constant, affective intercourse with divine revelation, the outcome of which is fruitfulness—results in the blessing of divine care of their ways; but the futile kinesis of the wicked, the outcome of which is fruitlessness, results in divine judgment, the destruction of their ways.
The Psalter is a book of songs, but Psalm 1 is hardly a representative of that genre. Rather, it is a composition commenting on how life works in God’s
Living!
Your last words. Very important.
But perhaps even more important are the last words others say about you. Your obituary. Its words give a glimpse of how we will be remembered by others.
The average person lives about 4,000 weeks. When they die, that entire existence is usually compressed an obituary. Chosen by loved ones, those words become the final public record of a life, capturing what mattered most and what made that life worth living.
So researchers decided to take
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.