Millions Living Past 100 years old.

[JeffreyS]

Just got back from Nicaragua very poor yet I did not see many obese people. They eat a lot of fruit because it is grown locally and cheaper than the processed food.  So they appear very healthy and fit in their younger life yet can not afford the health care to extend their life like we do in the more developed countries.  I submit to you that living a long life is about health care when you are old. BTW we have socialized medicine for old people in this country.

[Jason]

Socialized medicine or not, if you eat healthy and stay active you'll need very little healthcare.

[Shwaz]

As much as I still see and hear commercials for the 1 million calorie fast food triple fat burgers I also see many promoting everything from healthier sides to salads and fat free alternatives. Maybe we'll see fast food companies become more responsible and serve nutritious meals to more Americans... and Americans become responsible and choose these meals.

[macbeth25]

What will we do with all the extra people that good diets and exercise and medical breakthroughs will be getting us?  Some people say the Earth can't really support all the people on it now.  Here's something we can do with all the extra people:  Go into space, reach for the stars, put colonies on all available M-Class planets and terra-form what others we can so we can live there, too.  Don’t limit this exodus.  I want to go, too. 
Throughout history science fiction has become science fact. 
Just a couple of examples:  Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon and got many things right.  He put the launch site in Florida not that far from the Cape.  Another example, his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea had a submarine which may have used nuclear power -- anyone check those subs operating out of Kings Bay?  HG Wells talked about a time machine and I've read recently -- perhaps someone else can find the citation -- that scientists are now working along the line that he might have had a good idea. 
Flight, itself, not to mention space travel, was only fiction in which fools believed -- at one time. Look at us now.  I think the SR-71 Blackbird still holds world records for speed and altitude for aircraft: http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srrcd~1.htm and I haven’t forgotten that we’ve walked on the Moon.
You have probably heard of the Manhattan Project which resulted in the atomic bomb.  What some of you might not have heard is that military intelligence and FBI and so forth descended on some of the science fiction magazines in New York about the time nuclear weapons were becoming real and ordered them not to publish scheduled stories regarding nuclear weapons.
What the agents were told, essentially, was that science fiction publishers operated on a sort of schedule and it was their turn to publish just such a story.  If they didn’t, other publishers and later the readers would become suspicious and wonder why.  The publishers also made another very good point â€" the magazines had already been mailed. 
You might remember the story of the Heavy Cruiser Indianapolis from Captain Quint’s monologue in the movie Jaws .  While the man on whom Captain Quint was based had never been in the Navy and certainly had never served on the Indianapolis, the story he related was real.  See http://www.whysanity.net/monos/jaws.html  for his quote.
Here’s why I’m bringing this up:  One story has German spies hearing about the visit of the security people to the publishers and while, at the time, it was pretty clear Germany had lost the war, they were allies with Japan.  They figured out that something was up and that a weapon was going to be delivered which could end the war â€" it was going to be delivered by ship â€" and it might be a heavy cruiser. 
The Japanese went looking and only by luck did not find the Indianapolis until after she had delivered either Fat Man or Little Boy â€" I’ve forgotten which â€" to Tinian where the bomb was put aboard the Enola Gay and later dropped on Hiroshima.  The other weapon, the one dropped on Nagasaki, was delivered by air to Tinian and dropped by Bock’s Car. 
The captain of the Indianapolis later became perhaps the only US Navy officer to have as a witness against him at his court-martial the captain of the Japanese submarine which fired the torpedo which sank his ship. 
While Quint was never actually there, his words were right: “So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”  If you’d like, as Paul Harvey would put it, “The Rest of the Story,” look it up via Google, I’ve taken enough of your time.  Thanks for reading.