Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I’m hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it’s free to everyone. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation. S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like? S. Jay Olshansky Read Quote
