ladypatriot
Recycles dryer sheets
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Many retirement "experts" (often financial advisors in disguise) recommend planning for a retirement that provides income until age 90+. Yet, the average life expectancy is age 78. After reading an article that portends financial catastrophe from the depletion of social security because of baby boomers living into their 90's, I flip to an article that moans about the relentless scourge of diabetes and heart disease brought on by rising obesity rates, poor diet and sedentary lifestyle. After all, the article warns, two-thirds of American are overweight and one-third of those are morbidly obese, and that by 2040 we'll ALL be overweight.
Medical experts are quick to alert us that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity tend to shorten lifespans ('cause, you know, we couldn't figure that out on our own...). Wouldn't that mean two-thirds of Americans will see their lifespans shortened because of obesity, diabetes and heart disease? So, where are all these people living into their 90's?
According to a life-expectancy test I recently took on the Blue Zone website, I will likely live to 105. The life-expectancy test on the MSN retirement page puts me at 102. I'm 50 now, so I'm halfway there. DH is 57 and refuses to take the tests, but both his parents are alive and well in their 80's. So, maybe we are going to contribute to the coming social security tsunami that will destroy the financial fabric of our country. Heh. Personally, I doubt it. DH and I will live until we die, and each year is good.
Anyway, just my musings on a Sunday morning. What's your personal life expectancy?
Medical experts are quick to alert us that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity tend to shorten lifespans ('cause, you know, we couldn't figure that out on our own...). Wouldn't that mean two-thirds of Americans will see their lifespans shortened because of obesity, diabetes and heart disease? So, where are all these people living into their 90's?
According to a life-expectancy test I recently took on the Blue Zone website, I will likely live to 105. The life-expectancy test on the MSN retirement page puts me at 102. I'm 50 now, so I'm halfway there. DH is 57 and refuses to take the tests, but both his parents are alive and well in their 80's. So, maybe we are going to contribute to the coming social security tsunami that will destroy the financial fabric of our country. Heh. Personally, I doubt it. DH and I will live until we die, and each year is good.
Anyway, just my musings on a Sunday morning. What's your personal life expectancy?