
According to the people at BlueZones.com, my "body age" is 27.2, and I can expect to get almost halfway to my 92nd birthday before I keel over, dead.
Those are my 32-year-old-man's results on the new Vitality Compass test—which measures the vagaries of your world view, diet, lifestyle, and social connections—and they required only a moderate amount of lying. Okay, one notch past "moderate."
Anyway, not bad. Apparently, if I quit drinking, reduce my salt intake, get married, and get religion, I can expect to lengthen my life by 5.2 years. I regard that as a dilemma.
We can expect to see more tests like this, says Michael Kinsley says in a recent essay in The New Yorker. Forget monster homes, shiny BMWs, and upscale vacations, the last boomer game is about to start—"the game of competitive longevity." The only contest that matters in the end, he says, is about life itself. "And the standard is clear: Mine is longer than yours."
The question, obviously: How did you do?
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Comments
I am 28 and my biological
By Anonymous, May 21, 2008 at 11:12I am 28 and my biological age is 23.8 and my life expectancy is 96.4...I lost points for no seafood ( I am a vegetarian) and too much salt!
I think you cheated. I'm 29
By Anonymous, May 1, 2008 at 09:28I think you cheated. I'm 29 and the test said by biological age is 28, and my life expectancy is just 85... and I am pretty sure I have a better lifestyle than yours!
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