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Life Expectancy Quiz
May 19, 1999

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How long will you live? While you can't predict the future, Dr. Thomas Perls, a Harvard researcher has come up with a quiz he says can give you a pretty good idea.

The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator© was designed to translate what we have learned from studies of centenarians and other longevity research into a practical and empowering tool for individuals to estimate their longevity potential.

The average person is born with a set of genes that would allow them to live to 85 years of age and maybe longer. People who take appropriate preventive steps may add as many as 10 quality years to that. People who fail to heed the messages of preventive medicine may subtract substantial years from their lives.

To use the calculator, answer all of the questions. Most of the centenarian subjects in our Harvard Medical School-based New England Centenarian Study would score very high on this test.

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