Review of the Week: I’m still standing  

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Currie, Colin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 336 no. 7641 (Feb. 2008), page 449.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2008.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Centenarians are still exceptional, though rapidly becoming less so. For How to Live to 101 the BBC’s Horizon team tracked down some of the most exceptional of them all, with intriguing rather than conclusive results: interesting enough to make good television, though perhaps not quite good enough for Ben Goldacre or for a respectable peer reviewed journal like this. And as good television often does, How to Live to 101 took us on a journey: from Okinawa to Sardinia, to California and then—of all places—to Glasgow. With a population of around a million, Okinawa has 900 centenarians, or four times the numbers expected at UK rates. In a remote village among damp, green mountains—not quite Shangri-La, but clearly hog heaven for a gerontologist—Dr Bradley Wilcox explains that here the 90 year olds look like 60 year olds; and a 100 year old villager tells us that when, even at his . . .

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