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Want to live to 100+?

If you want to live to be 100 or more, be the person at the party to greet total strangers.

Research shows that having an outgoing personality might be one of the hallmark traits of people who live to a ripe old age.

They recently examined the personalities of adult offspring of centenarians, with the assumption that the offspring have a good shot at living to over 100.

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BREATH IS LIFE

Life is absolutely dependent upon the act of breathing. “Breath is Life.”

To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life. Not only are the higher animals dependent upon breath for life and health, but even the lower forms of animal life must breathe to live, and plant life is likewise dependent upon the air for continued existence.

The infant draws in a long, deep breath, retains it for a moment to extract from it its life-giving properties, and then exhales it in a long wail, and lo! its life upon earth has begun. The old man gives a faint gasp, ceases to breathe, and life are over. From the first faint breath of the infant to the last gasp of the dying man, it is one long story of continued breathing. Life is but a series of breaths.

Breathing may be considered the most important of all of the functions of the body, for, indeed, all the other functions depend upon it. Man may exist some time without eating; a shorter time without drinking; but without breathing his existence may be measured by a few minutes.

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