"Life span" refers to the length of time that something is expected to live or exist. It can be used to talk about the duration of a person's life, the longevity of a particular species, or even the lifetime of an object.
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For most people to get beyond the average
life span of about 78, the variation has to do with lifestyle, with being healthy.
It can reach about 15 - 20 feet per year, with an
average life span of about 5 - 7 years.
Due to the
short life span of pets in relation to people, proper home care of your pet's teeth becomes an important health measure.
After all, you've probably heard about the scientific studies showing that drinking wine is associated with better health in general, and a
longer life span in particular.
In good news for food lovers, studies threw doubt on the idea that restricting calories to very low levels might extend
life span in humans.
The rapid decline in birth rates from 1960 to 1980 and the
extended life span of people 65 and older have changed the face of many religious institutions.
Better health care, nutrition, and genetic background have added to an
increasing life span in dogs.
Most devices have about a two - to - three
year life span for support, before they are phased out.
Advances in medicine, nutrition and diagnostics have led to longer
life spans for pets just as they have for their owners.
Unless you're experiencing declining health or have a family history of
shortened life spans, medical advances make it likely that you're going to spend many years in retirement.
If that's the case, it would mean that stopping aging would not extend human
life span by much.
With pet and
human life spans increasing, more and more senior pets are ending up in shelters and rescues through no fault of their own.
Human females can live a
normal life span with the disease, as can female mice — the latter species also frequently becomes obese.
The standard warranty and
expected life span on flat panel displays is shorter; between three and seven years.
That's bad news: Y chromosome loss has been linked to a shorter
life span as well as a higher risk of cancer.
Lastly, you expect a dramatically
limited life span of 12 months or less in the absence of extensive medical treatment.
This friction forces use of expensive rings, and ultimately
reduce life span of engine block itself.
Researchers have discovered a large - and continually growing - number of ways to significantly extend healthy and
maximum life span in mice.
It is clear that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is the foundation of avoiding chronic diseases, extending
healthy life spans, and possibly optimizing fertility.
The concept of a
natural life span needs, finally, a grounding in our biological nature, not just in our history.
Also, my understanding is that a 25 % increase in
median life span would bring us up to 100, which would mean a reduction of mortality at very old ages too.
I didn't like the stock battery's short
life span between charges, but an extended battery took care of that problem.
It can require monitoring or therapies but does not necessarily
affect life span.
All of these strategies make charter schools more appealing to lenders by aligning their legal
life spans more closely with that of mortgages and bonds.
You should also know that in order to ensure a
good life span for these diapers, you'll need a stash of at least 24 per child.
It's possible that those in the healthy food group had an extended
life span because they had a reduced rate of chronic disease.
Permanent life insurance lasts your
full life span regardless of age or how long you've had the policy.
I knew all that, yet the prospect of a slimmer body, better health and longer
life span did not motivate me to change my eating habits.
One is a product of ignorance and one of knowledge and both will be in infinite supply as long as we have
finite life spans and share cultural knowledge.
A third goal can be called maximizing life expectancy, aiming for
life spans beyond 150 years and then indefinitely long after that.
They try to tell the
whole life span of their subject making the film feel rushed and a bit generic in its approach.
Turns out that interactions with the opposite sex really do
control life span, at least if you're an insect or a worm.
Because
adult life spans are only about a month, the journey is a family affair: Up to six generations are needed to make the round trip.
Throughout its three -
month life span, the plant now emits a green glow that's about as luminous as a glow - in - the - dark stick - on star.
When you combine this with our longer
life spans when compared to previous generations, there are a lot more seniors who are single, than there use to be.
With an expected
remaining life span of less than a year or two, insurance companies began offering this rider.
Large dog breeds tend to have shorter
life spans due to extensive strain on their cardiovascular and skeletal system.
Our DNA shows that our ancestors had roughly the
same life span as we do (though shorter life expectancy due to environment / medical knowledge).