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In other words, Vilcabamba produces centenarians at a rate 366 times greater than we do.

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Pinker took an in - depth look at the life - long habits of centenarians in Sardinia, an Italian island that boasts six times as many centenarians as the mainland, and ten times as many as North America.

Also at 11 a.m., Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. hosts the annual Bronx Week Centenarian Celebration, honoring Bronxites that have lived 100 or more years, Villa Barone Manor, 737 Throggs Neck Expressway, the Bronx.

For years, the company and its centenarian founder Leonard Litwin appeared at the top of lists of New York's largest campaign donors.

Dr. McKee directs the Neuropathology Service for the New England Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VISN - 1) and the Brain Banks for the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Framingham Heart Study, and Centenarian Study, which are all based at the Bedford VAMC.

Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine and geriatrics at Boston University Medical Center, is the founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, which began in 1994 and has included more than 1,500 people who lived to be at least 100.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

Previous work has shown that 90 percent of centenarians are disability - free at the age of 93.

She's a participant in the New England Centenarian Study, a long - term research project at the Boston Medical Center that studies why people like her enjoy such exceptional longevity.

«Even though they have these illnesses, they handle them better than other people and have better protective mechanisms,» says Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University and director of the New England Centenarian Study.

I was just at an aging conference and talked with people studying centenarians.

Nir Barzilai, a gerontologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, says that the centenarians he studies have led him to believe that genetics is more important than diet and lifestyle.

That may be one reason why this lively centenarian has an extraordinary memory for someone her age, suggests a recent study by researchers at Northwestern University highlighting a notable link between brain health and positive relationships.

Centenarians show successful aging as they remain active and alert at very old ages.

Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova at the University of Chicago gathered birth and death data from more than 1500 centenarians born in the US between 1880 and 1895.

These days, the science of assisted reproductive technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that laboratory researchers say it will soon be medically possible for even a centenarian to give birth.

More expansive genetic studies are now underway as researchers «look at the rate of genetic variation across the entire genome» of centenarians, says Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston University.

Caleb Finch, a geron - tologist at the University of Southern California, has assembled an impressive catalogue of living things that grow old without obvious deterioration, including 20 - kilogram lobsters, centenarian fish and veteran sea anemones.

Centenarians live at least fifteen years longer than the average person in the West.

There are other credibility problems with the Okinawa Centenarian Study, at least as interpreted in the author's popular books.

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An old friend who really loves high - performance cars — he has owned as many as five Porsches at once and still keeps three rarities — bought a Maserati GranTurismo a year or two ago just because he thought it was beautiful and would be the perfect car to use when he goes to visit his centenarian grandmother.

My wife and I happen to be acquainted with a centenarian named Meta, who we met at church.

The new - found interest in centenarian Carmen Herrera, who last year had an acclaimed exhibition at the Whitney, seems to owe much to the efforts of Lisson Gallery.

As Leonard Manasseh becomes our first centenarian Royal Academician, his cousin, the architectural historian Timothy Brittain - Catlin, takes a look at a career of over 80 years.

To gather the data, they looked at the biggest study yet done on centenarians, and found that there were common lifestyle choices and habits amongst those who lived longest: Vegetarianism, avoidance of alcohol, and a strong religion, to name a few.

Even though many are suffering from illnesses and ailments that most seniors deal with, over a third of these centenarians continue to live at home, and 25 percent are cognitively intact.

Speaking at the International Council of Shopping Center's Open - Air conference in February, Paul Freddo, Penney vice president and director of real estate, said the now spry centenarian embraced the lifestyle center concept and it is looking at potential sites.