{"id":17148,"date":"2014-10-20T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=17148"},"modified":"2014-10-20T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:09:53","slug":"health-and-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=17148","title":{"rendered":"Health and Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A friend told me her brother- in- law (a Dutchman) is celebrating his 100 years old birthday soon. And this centenarian is as healthy as can be! What is the <span style=\"color: #993366\">secret<\/span> to his good health and longevity? I see much younger people already bedridden or needing wheelchairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the use of living to 80s and 90s if one is suffering from debility? Hence I think it\u2019s a good idea to \u2018study\u2019 the <span style=\"color: #993366\">habits<\/span> of healthy octogenarians and nonagenarians (or centenarians!) and try to uncover at least one thing that can impact health in old age positively.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is a story in the *ST recently about a 99-year-old former principal who is still learning a foreign language. Every day he spends about four hours self-learning Italian. And he is so engrossed in his study he has no time to feel lonely. This made me conclude that <span style=\"color: #993366\">serious learning<\/span> will help keep dementia at bay. This is the one thing I would like to share with others and I hope to practice this one thing myself asap!\u00a0 :)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0*<\/strong>Sunday Times 12\/10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/trees1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6567\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/trees1-200x144.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"267\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend told me her brother- in- law (a Dutchman) is celebrating his 100 years old birthday soon. And this centenarian is as healthy as can be! What is the secret to his good health and longevity? I see much younger people already bedridden or needing wheelchairs. What\u2019s the use of living to 80s and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=17148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health and Longevity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-17148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-longevity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17153,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17148\/revisions\/17153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}