Sunday, January 4, 2009

Recently Read #12

Today I read an article called "the graying of the presidents". It is about a book written by a doctor who carefully studies aging, and he tells his theories about the aging of presidents. One of his theories is that presidents age 2 years for every year in office. So if a president is in office for 8 years, they will physically age 16 years. He says it doesn't matter what their background is, if they played sports, smoked, were republicans or democrats, they will still age twice as fast. One of his examples is Theodore Roosevelt. At the time, his life expectancy was 75, but he barely lived to see 60.

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