Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

50 really is the new 30

e must be doing something right when it comes to living younger longer. The statistics are dramatic when you compare today’s chances of dying to 50 years ago. If you’re 50 years old today, your chances of dying at that age are the equivalent of someone in their late thirties 50 years ago. If you’re 80 today, your chances of dying at that age are the equivalent of someone in their late sixties 50 years ago. If you’re 90 years of age today, your chances of dying at that age are the equivalent of someone in their early eighties 50 years ago. Put another way, in 1950, the risk of death in the following 12 months for an

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