Amend, Discuss, Correct Barbie and Ken are named after the children of Ruth and Elliot Handler, founder of Mattel. Correct Reported in a 1990 issue of science magazine. If heart disease, cancer, and diabetes were eliminated, the life expectancy for both men and women would leap to 99.2 years. Amend, Discuss, Correct Shigechio isumi, an okinawan fisherman, lived to almost 121 years. It is projected that this number will be 110,000 in 2004.
Control factors are proper calcium and stress exercise.
Amend, Discuss, Correct Our current median age is 32, and is projected to be 36 by the turn of the century. In 1776 it was 16. Amend, Discuss, Correct The national institute for health projects that by the year 2040 the average life expectancy will be 86 for men and 91.5 for women. Correct An epidemiological anomaly is that japan, with the highest smoking rate, has the lowest lung-cancer rate. The u.s. has the second highest smoking rate with 400,000 related deaths per year compared to japan's 110,186 deaths.