My Results :
If you continue maintaining healthy habits, you’ll
want to plan for a maximum life expectancy of 91 years or more.
Your "ideal" weight for maximum longevity is: 150 lbs.
The three biggest positive factors that you have
going for you are:
1. Age of grandparents
2. Personality type
3. Education
The one biggest negative factor that you have going for you is:
1. Gender
I don’t know my cholestorol level, so I left the default of 200. I am pleased with 91 years, but don’t like the part about Male Gender being my “biggest negative factor”. Sounds like this test was written by feminists!
Yeah, well, women live longer. Makes sense, evolutionarily speaking.
That said, the site does seem pretty bad to me. I don’t know my cholesterol level (I’m a 24 year old vegetarian - why would I have it checked?) and I don’t even know what’s average. But they didn’t have a “Don’t know” option. Likewise, there was no room between “walk 2 miles three times a week” and “avoid all excercise except going between the fridge and the couch.” Harumph.
And how many of my parents lived to age 80? They’re both in their 50s, and very much alive.
So anyway, it said I’d live to 80, and my fiance would live to 98. I guess she should either plan to remarry, or pick up a long-lasting hobbie when we get old!
No, seriously, it gave me to age 61. I liked the Spark’s death calculation better. Not only did it give me four fewer years in my current misery, but it gave me a 15% chance of death by auto-erotic asphyxiation. Hey, I’ll be happy if I can manage auto-erotic asphyxiation at 57.
“I don’t just want you to feel envy. I want you to suffer, I want you to bleed, I want you to die a little bit each day. And I want you to thank me for it.” – What “Let’s just be friends” really means
Chickens are vegetarians, too - and they do a pretty good job of producing cholesterol.
Seriously, a vegetarian diet is very good cholesterol-wise, but some people just tend to have high cholesterol. Your doctor should be checking yours as a standard part of your annual checkup.
I just took the test, and it says that I can expect to live to be 90 (I’m currently 52). It also suggested that I lose 20 pounds (that’s funny, my doctor is suggesting the same thing).
Man, it gave me till 67. And I don’t know my blood pressure or cholesterol, so I left it at the defaults. I’m sure if I plugged in accurate values it’ll tell me I died last week. I’m 35 now, so that means my life is half over. Time to buy a red porsche I guess.
My wife’s supposed to make it to 94+. I suppose we should try to line up some Swedish Tennis Pro for her now.
Well, it seems I have to gain 20lbs to get to my ideal weight - I’m 96lbs and 5ft1. This told me my ideal weight is 118lbs! I might be thin, but I’m not exactly emaciated. Oh well, if this site tells me I have to gain 20lbs, it must be true! Pass the chocolate…
Ok, apparently I need to gain 9 pounds, but if I do, I get to live to be 102! Jeez, I hope passing up the giant coffee bun for breakfast didn’t shorten my life expectancy…
Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa…
If you continue maintaining healthy habits, you’ll want to plan for a maximum life expectancy of 92 years or more.
Your “ideal” weight for maximum longevity is: 161 lbs.
The three biggest positive factors that you have going for you are:
1. Age of parents
2. Cholesterol level
3. Personality type
The three biggest negative factors that you have going for you are:
1. Gender
2. Family health
3. Driving under the influence
My parents are also only in their 50’s. Hell, my grandmother is only in her 70’s. My grandfather was killed when he got hit by a projectile. My fraternal grandmother did die of cancer (I think), but that grandfather is still hanging on.
I have no idea where # 3 came from. I answered “Yes” to do you drink alcohol and “No” or “0” to DUI or whatever it was.
All on the maternal side: I met my great, great grandmother (1872-1975). My great grandmother died 3 years ago (1901-1997). Grandma’s still kickin’ and so is ma.
One of the funniest things I saw on life expectancy was on the Alexie Sayle Show.
Against a backdrop of a London street-
He said that the lifespan of parents and what they died of was the biggest lifespan determining factor.
He then went on to say his parents died at the hands of sabre- wielding Cossacks in Russia so he’d be safe in London.
Damn! I just went back and filled out the survey again, and I dropped from a life expectancy of 90 to a life expectancy of 72. I think it’s because this time I filled out the family history section correctly (my ancestors were fond of dying from heart attacks).
Ah, well, that still gives me another twenty years to play golf…
