Professor Thomas Perls of Harvard Medical School is the founder of the New England Centenarian Study (NECS); this study reports on the heath of some of the United States’ oldest citizens. He has distilled the most interesting results in his book « Living to 100 ». Here are some further extracts. Robert Griffith, Editor. Introduction While we were studying centenarians’ cognitive function, we were also looking at their individual characteristics, hoping to find something that would account for their ability to live to 100. Our goal was to find out what made centenarians healthier than the vast majority of people. Some highly visible studies had indicated that environmental and behavioral factors — like diet, exercise habits, access to health care — were much more important than inherited abilities in coping with aging. Diet? Most researchers believe that studies of diet, lifestyle, and personality would yield more concrete, usable information about healthy aging. However, one morning we were at a lecture at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, where we happened to bump into Lester Steinberg, the son of one of our NECS subjects. At 79, Dr. Steinberg shows all the signs of slow aging we’ve become accustomed to seeing among centenarians’ children, and he
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