LONGEVITY CALCULATOR..link at bottom for you to take as well.

 i am a member of several groups online, most of them are groups that have stationaries for email programs, or groups associated to programs that you manipulize to create all kinds of tags, staionaries, and various other graphical images.

most of the time, the posts are image related...occasionaly, theres a post that filters thru that one of the members thought the others might want to know about, and utilize, or simply..enjoy.

sometimes its an e-card, sometimes its a prayer request, often, its information.

such is the case with this post...
it came thru and i thought to take the quiz..

its a LONGEVITY CALCULATOR QUIZ...take it and it will assess (i call it guessing) your base average life expectancy..

mine..82 years old! and thats WITH being plus sized!!! go figure..lol

(not exactly sure i want to live to be 82, but i just realized if i did, im MIDDLE AGED RIGHT NOW!! **SOBS UNCONTROLLABLY** sniff sniff , i havnt even started to live yet!)

heres what the questions look like:

Longevity Calculator

Select your answer for each of the questions then click on the "Calculate" button at the bottom of the form to display the life expectancy derived from your responses. The "Score" column is to display the score for each of your responses. No entry is required in the "Score" column. About this Calculator

Select Answer Score

1 Do you smoke or chew tobacco, or are you around a lot of secondhand smoke?
Yes
No

2 Do you cook your fish, poultry, or meat until it is charred?
Yes
No

3 Do you avoid butter, cream, pastries, and other saturated fats as well as fried foods (e.g., French fries)?
Yes
No

4 Do you minimize meat in your diet, preferably making a point to eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and bran instead?
Yes
No

5 Do you consume more than two drinks of beer, wine, and/or liquor a day? (A standard drink is one 12-ounce bottle or beer, one wine cooler, one five-ounce glass of wine, or one and a half ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits.)
Yes
No

6 Do you drink beer, wine, and/or liquor in moderate amounts (one or two drinks/day)?
Yes
No

7 Do air pollution warnings occur where you live?
Yes
No

8 Do you drink more than 16 ounces of coffee a day?
Yes
No

9 Do you drink tea daily?
Yes
No

10 Do you take an aspirin a day?
Yes
No

11 Do you floss your teeth every day?
Yes
No

12 Do you have a bowel movement less frequently than once every two days?
Yes
No

13 Have you had a stroke or heart attack?
Yes
No

14 Do you try to get a suntan?
Yes
No

15 Are you more than 20 pounds overweight?
Yes
No

16 Do you live near enough other family members (other than your spouse and dependent children) that you can and want to drop by spontaneously?
Yes
No

17 Which statement applies to you?

A “Stress eats away at me. I can’t seem to shake it off.”

B “I can shed stress.” This might be by praying, exercising, meditating, finding humor in everyday life, or other means.
A.
B.

18 Did both of your parents either die before age75 of nonaccidental causes or require daily assistance by the time they reached age 75?
Yes
No
Don't Know

19 Did more than one of the following relatives live to at least age 90 in excellent health: parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents?
Yes
No
Don't Know

20 Are you a couch potato (do no regular aerobic or resistance exercise)?
Yes
No

21 Do you exercise at least three times a week?
Yes
No

22 Do you take vitamin E (400-800 IU) and selenium (100-200 mcg) every day? Yes
No

23 Please indicate your gender.
Male
Female

Your life expectancy based on the above responses: 82

About the Calculator

This Calculator is based on a quiz Harvard Medical School researchers Thomas Perl, M.D. and Margery Hutter Silver, Ed.D. developed to help you calculate your life expectancy. The quiz was developed after a rigorous study of 150 centenarians.

To compute your life expectancy, the calculator sums all of the individual score points together. The result may be negative, zero, or a positive number. The calculator program then divides the result by 5. The result of this division is then added to 84 if male or 88 if female, producing life expectancy in years.


i didnt show the answers i chose in case any of you might want to do the test and could be swayed by my answers.

heres the link to take the test for yourself..

http://www.icmarc.org/xp/rc/planning/tools/retirement/longevity.html
 
if you do take the test, could you please reply with a comment on YOUR score...id like to know what YOU made. :-)

thanks
MICHELLE