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There was a very famous questionnaire commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1950s to seek "The Secrets of Long Life." Gallop Poll conducted the study and put together a 24-page 221-question survey on diet, health, birthplace, climate, and heredity. The subjects were all 95 or older. Here's a summary of foods, fluid intake, tobacco use, health, body size, physical activity, religion, family, and heredity. The results are staggering when you consider what is going on today. History speaks...what is missing today?

Sources: "The Hot Life of Man and Beast" by D.B. Dill (1985). The first of three Saturday Evening Post articles on "The Secrets of Long Life" was published on August 15, 1959.