Sentences with phrase «people live to a ripe old age»

It isn't true that everyone died young back then, either — high infant mortality can produce a low average life expectancy for a population, even if many people live to a ripe old age.

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But, since that study looked only at people who'd already made it into ripe old age, it's tough to say whether or not the study participants developed these characteristics as a result of old age or if the traits helped them to live as long as they had.

And it does seem that some people have lived charmed lives, they are born into great families who have guided them, given them every opportunity to succeed, have good health, and live to a ripe old age, while others are born into poverty with lousy parents and live miserable lives.

@ReligionIs4Dolts - Are you claiming at some level that all those ppl would have lived on to a peaceful and ripe old age if their had been no religions?

People with Laron syndrome seemed to live to a ripe old age, he reported — not to age 110, but well into their 70s and 80s.

Medical advances mean that many people who once would have died young now live to a ripe old age.

«There is very likely a group of people who have some unknown protective factor that allows them to live to a ripe old age without cognitive decline,» Fargo said.

Someone (Huntress) tries scare tactics to convince people that there's a huge huge mortality «danger» from «low protein» diets and in reponse, it is pointed out that LOTS of poeple eat low protein diets and live to a ripe old age,... debunking this scare tactic.

She had no missing sisters and her parents lived to ripe old age, but there is something about that era that keeps many people from discussing - or even remembering - it; whether the reasons be deep family secrets or the hardship of growing up on a farm during the depression.