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90% of the old people who have ever lived are alive right now... Population profiles or pyramids are a useful tool for the visual display of the changing composition of any nation's population. Used primarily by Demographer's to display age and sex data the most obvious changes are due to increased death rates and a decline in the number of children born, but experienced users can see many other things as well. For example you can see the changes in the United States throughout the twentieth century, including those changes reflecting immigration, losses in the two world wars, reduced birth rates in the depression of the 1930's, and the surging birth rates of the baby boom years...all in one chart. The overall age distribution of a population is its highest and best use. We have chosen the 100 years between 1950-2050 for our Pyramid to show a balance of historical and future projections.

" YOUTH BULGES"

Some Demographers claim they can track historical and future periods of social unrest through identifying something called a "Youth Bulge." A youth bulge occurs when a country has a large youth population that cannot find Jobs...such as what is taking place in the middle east right now. It is estimated that 65% percent of the population in this Region is under 30 and there is a high percentage of males who are highly educated and cannot find work. In Egypt for example, the Unemployment rate is said to be 10 times higher for college graduates in urban areas than in other segments of Egyptian society. Under these conditions it is easy to understand why they are demanding change. Note the ages of the protestors in the image to the left. "Youth Bulge" theory is highly controversial due to the number of historical examples where it doesn't apply, but our research indicates it does apply when all the conditions are present as they are now in certain parts of the world.

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Finally Researchers have discovered what those of us over 50 knew all along...Popeye was right, eating a bowl of spinach a day makes your muscles "profoundly" more efficient. Recent studies confirmed eating just 300g of the vegetable reduced the amount of oxygen needed to power muscles by as much as five per cent when exercising. The secret is not in the iron as was previously thought, but in the abundance of nitrates in the vegetable. The effect is so powerful it works after only 3 days...

"It is like a fuel additive for your muscles - it makes them run much more smoothly and efficiently," said the lead author Dr Eddie Weitzberg of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

The study found that the difference in energy in take was between three and five per cent - a significant figure. Thus the "Superfood," made popular by Popeye the Sailor Man in the 1950's, who popped open a can of spinach whenever he got in trouble has passed the test of time.

According to the study...Nitric oxide is an important molecule which opens up blood vessels, lowers blood pressure, and improves circulation. Mitochondria, like all engines, lose a lot of energy through heat loss. The nitrate seems to stop this waste so the muscle works more efficiently. "We know that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can help prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but the active nutrients haven't been clear...this is a profound and significant effect. It shows that Popeye was right all along."

Our research indicates that Physical Strength is often overlooked, by young and old alike, as one of the keys to living a long and productive life. As you age getting stronger becomes more difficult, but with proper diet and exercise you can keep the strength you have for a long time...therefore it makes sense to build up as much strength as you can while you are young and according to the study by eating your spinach you just found 5% no matter how old you are...

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Our research into broken heart syndrome began with a study that was conducted at the Institute of Heart-Math in Boulder Creek, California. The subjects were six long-time couples' hooked up to heart  rate monitors as they slept beside each other. The results revealed that during the night, while they were sleeping, their heart rhythms began to fall into sync, rising and falling at the same time. In the morning, when the printouts of their EKGs were placed on top of each other, they looked virtually the same. How can this happen if there is no connection?

"When people are in a relationship for 20, 30, 40, 50 years, they create sort of a co-energetic resonance with each other," says Lipsenthal, the past director of Dr. Dean Ornish's Preventative Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. "A simple analogy is two tuning forks put next to each other. They create a co-resonant pitch. What happens when two people sleep together for 50 years? What happens when one goes away?"

He was 94 and she was 90. They had been married for 72 years when a tragic car accident put them in the hospital where they were sharing the same intensive care unit when their 64 year old son arrived. He said, "they were holding hands, but weren't really responsive." That afternoon Gordon Yeager passed away with his wife and family beside him. Their son David witnessed the event and said, "they were holding hands and dad stopped breathing, but I couldn't figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going, we were like, he isn't breathing. How does he still have a heart beat?" The nurse explained, "her heart was beating through him and the monitor is picking it up." Exactly one hour later Norma Yeager died too. They continued to hold hands at the funeral earlier this year, sharing the same casket, as inseparable in death as they were in life.  Tom LeDuc

Explore the science on Broken Heart Syndrome by reviewing the 1,000,000 person Harvard Study here: Dying of a Broken Heart

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