one children alive today may live ...

one children alive today may live to 150 years of age, refer tos a prominent American scientist. Steven Austad, PhD of the University of Texas Health Science Center said--in an October 21 2004 interview for BBC's Discovery television series--that the life-span for a human being may be longer than the bulk of mankind have considered possible.

In the industrialized world, more population are living into their 90 and 100 and there's no sign of the direction leveling off. That life-span increase branchs from better medicine, sanitation and nutrition and not from an increased natural life-span.

if it were not that the doctor points out that in any pre-industrial societies around the globe, the public are surviving into their 70 and 80s--despite a lack of readily available medicines or optimum nutrition. This indicates he theorizes, that our natural life-span may be growing. It's a controversial theory, not accepted according to mainstream science.

"Even in the absence of medical advances, with just evolutionary change, in the foreseeable coming one would expect humans to age at a slower and slower rate," Austad says. Meanwhile, he added that he was likewise certain that someone alive today will still be alive in 2150 he had placed a bet forward it with a friend. "It's a bet that I be perceived I'm so over-whelmingly likely to win, I perceive like I've stolen the standard of value from him."

Of course, equable if he wins--since his prediction doesn't apply to those of us who have already reached adulthood--his chances of collecting upon that bet are pretty slim.

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