Can positive thinking help Healthy Aging?

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2006 | by Al Neuharth

September is Healthy Aging Month. No matter your age, if you are reading this, you are growing older. The definition of "old" has changed. The biblical "three score and 10" (70) for one's lifetime is outdated. At birth now, the average life expectancy in the USA is 74.9 for males, 80.7 for females.

More and more are beating that average. A year ago there were 63,474 centenarians (100 or older) in the USA. Now there are 76,597. One who turned 100 this month is Ruth Stafford Peale. She is noted for her many professional partnerships with her late husband, Norman Vincent Peale. He wrote the best seller The Power of Positive Thinking more than 50 years ago. Together he and she helped build the Horatio Alger Association,which annually honors distinguished men and women who made...