Living 120 Years

You may think that aging is an unstoppable force - but there are brakes to slow its progress. Since 1900, average life expectancy around the globe has more than doubled, thanks to better public health, sanitation, and food supplies. But a new study of long-lived Italians and Japanese indicates that we have yet to reach the upper bound of human longevity.Human life expectancy is on the rise. Whereas the average person born in 1960 could expect to live to 55 years of age, someone born today has an average life expectancy between 79 and 83 years of age. The question many of us ask is: how far can we push the boundaries of our human lifespan? Scientists are still studying this question...