20 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LONGEVITY ...

 I can affirm that today we live the "revolution of longevity" ... derived from progress and civilization as a movement in favor of life, invincible for being an expression of the simplest and elementary desire of the human heart: to live one day plus. As spontaneously as people want to breathe, they want longer, healthier lives.

 Longevity increases with time ... there is no maximum limit for human life.

 Longevity is not necessarily related to the excessive care of the body or the organism, many factors can affect the life expectancy of each of us.

 Prosperity, education and medical treatment have played a more decisive role than previously thought. During the last decades, life expectancy has increased progressively and significantly.

 Healthy aging with all that implies is a contributing and essential factor to consolidate longevity.

 Continuing questions and discovering new things keeps you engaged with the world and with others. Curiosity keeps the brain active, as it happens in the case of the smallest. A more awakened mind is, in short, an open mind to life.

 Sleeping more than nine hours a day and sitting more than seven hours are two factors that have dire consequences for longevity.

 Drinking coffee lengthens life ... I love coffee! My coffee maker is not the source of eternal youth, but it has been shown that substances contained in coffee can preserve cellular integrity, decreasing the risk of premature death.

 There is a close relationship between the reduction in years of life and loneliness. Loneliness causes frustration and the feeling that we are relegated throughout society. All the centenarians are surrounded by family and friends, they stay in social interaction.

 Many young people between 30 and 40 years of age stop sharing with friends and prefer to telephone and computer what has been shown to reduce their life expectancy.

 The centenarian people almost do not watch television.

 The feeding influences the longevity of the individual. Avoiding excesses and processed foods ensures an increase in life expectancy.

 Various researches have shown the curative and preventive properties of optimism, both for physical and mental health. Optimistic and happy people live longer than pessimists.

 Women live longer than men. Although statistically more men are born in the world, they do not manage to survive women. Therefore, longevity is a reality experienced mainly - not to say exclusively - by women.

 Longevity has a high genetic component. Centenarians transmit genetic information from generation to generation, inheriting their descendants longevity.

 The possibility that people survive beyond what is expected, sadly, has a counterproductive effect on society ... not all countries have the possibility of serving centenarians because they do not have the necessary infrastructure for this purpose or resources monetary measures to ensure the dignified survival of these people.

 The environment determines the longevity of the human being. In hostile environments the human being lives less time.

 Longevity can become an emotional state ... it revolves around the biological as well as the psychological, although more precisely around the individual's desire to live.

 Longevity can be a gift of life or a curse, and that depends on each of us ... if we make decisions from our present, oriented to give us permission to reinvent ourselves, to plan and experiment and to keep alive the passion to learn.

 Longevity is art and science simultaneously ... it is art LIVING in a full sense, harmonious, spontaneous, human, wise, rediscovering itself helped by science.