Question

Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+

a) Describe the three most important ideas, concepts or arguments presented during the Ted Talk.

b) Identify two ideas, concepts, or arguments that were unclear in some way and affected your overall understanding of the topic. Briefly describe how this affected your understanding of the material and describe why.

c) Propose a thoughtful question to the speaker in response to the talk as if you were in the audience and able to engage in a thoughtful discussion with the speaker.

Answer 1

A) most important ideas shared :-

1) grandmother effects, that is how we treat our grandparents and it's better when they live along with their children in same home, which helps their grandchildren

2) The most Important effect on longevity of life is of lifestyle you pursue

3) to stop eating when stomach is 20% full

B) unclear ideas

1) why and how people do work even after attaining such age, as there must be lack of stamina and strength to do so

2) how does the people of such age can do their work that way, how they get that musch of strength what do they eat and what makes them that comfortable in life

C) would like to ask, how telomerase acts, as according to discovery, their activity is to lower the effect of cell death by reducing the action on telomere of chromosomes