衰老不是不可避免的。新近的研究发现,长寿和早亡的工具都在我们自己的手中。 现年已104岁的安杰琳·斯特兰德尔并不过分相信医生。“如果他们开始让你常去看病,”她说,“他们只会使你生病。”这位马萨诸塞州百岁老人确也偶尔看病一次。但自1925年患盲肠炎病倒过一次后,她就再也没得过什么大病。“人们问我吃什么,”她 Aging is not inevitable. Recent research has found that the tools of longevity and premature death are in our own hands. Angeline Stendall, now 104, does not overdo the doctor. “If they start getting you to see a doctor often,” she said, “they only make you sick.” The centenarian in Massachusetts did see the doctor once in a while. However, she had never had any serious illness since her suffering from appendicitis fell again in 1925. “People ask me what to eat,” she said