A 100th birthday ften warrants a photo and article in the hometown paper. Centenarians promise to be even hardier if they avoid those life-ending diseases. There are discoveries researchers haven't explained. Centenarian women outnumber men, but are sicker and more frail. Women who have a child after 40 are five times as likely to reach the century mark than other women.
Centenarians are all races.
Some farm, others surf the internet. A comfortable, wealthy, pampered life doesn't necessarily guarantee long life. Children of slaves have lived to 100. Read the full study.