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And on his farm he had three kids ...

Posted: May 15th 2008 4:09PM by Chris Sparling
Filed under: Fitness, Food and Nutrition, Healthy Aging, Men's Health

A quick browse through the British edition of Men's Health made me think about moving out to the heartland to buy some farmland. It also made the second part of that plan include having three kids. Why would I even entertain the notion of living such a polar opposite lifestyle from the one I lead right now? Living to be 100 seems like a decent enough reason to me.

According to the article, a study out of the University of Chicago Center on Aging found that fathering three children makes a man's chances of living to 100 by almost 300 percent. Couple that with the fact that farmers are more than two times as likely to live for a century than us city folk, and it would seem that a life on the farm with the kids could be a long and healthy one.

Now if I only had a clue how to drive a tractor. Hmmm ...



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