And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? (Matthew 6:27).
This blurb comes from "The Foster Report." The most educated Americans are making the biggest gains in life expectancy, but now they say mortality data show life spans for some of the least educated Americans are actually contracting. The reasons for the decline remain unclear, but researchers offered possible explanations, including a spike in prescription drug overdoses among young whites, higher rates of smoking among less educated white women, rising obesity, and a steady increase in the number of the least educated Americans who lack health insurance.
I expect to see a greater decline in life spans as "ObamaCare" is implemented, and as a result, health care is rationed. So, the most important things one can do is to become educated and self disciplined in the matters that make for physical health. It has been known for years that staying physically active, having a positive out-look on life, being social and being one who trusts in God are great contributors to extended physical life.
Long life, by itself, is not the reason that a Christian should want to physically live longer. Rather, serving the Lord is our aim. If it should be that God calls me home today, that's okay.
Being a cattleman and a hog farmer, they don't write songs about hog farmers, I need to add that there are no 100-year-old vegetarians.
Our Father's Blessings,
Tom
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