Most babies born in this century to live to 100

Most babies in the rich countries of the century was born, it will be their 100th Birthday, says a new search.

Danish experts say that since 20 Century, people in developed countries over three decades of living longer than in the past. Interestingly, the development shows no signs of slowing down.

In an article published Friday in the Lancet medical journal, the researchers write that the aging process "can be changed."

James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, Denmark and his colleagues reviewed published studies that are global in the years 2004-2005 in many issues related to aging. They found the life expectancy is rising steadily in most countries, even beyond the limits of what scientists previously thought possible. In Japan, for example, which are the longest in the world, life expectancy, more than half of the country, 80 years old women had to live to 90.

"Improvements in health care lead to a slowing of the aging process, challenges the notion that there is a limit to human longevity," said David Gems, an expert on aging at the University College London. Gems was not for research or study drugs that can the life of mice, may one day extend applications relates to people.

"Studies in laboratory mice, including ours, show that if you slow aging, only a few, it has a strong protective effect," he said. "A pill that slows aging would provide protection against the full spectrum of age-related diseases."

While increasing the diseases that affect the elderly such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, advances in medical treatments are also possible, they remain active longer. The obesity epidemic, but they can complicate things. Obesity makes people more susceptible to disease and may die, their risk increases.

In the United States from 1982 to 2000 data showed a marked decline in cases of illness and disability in older people, but has begun to turn back now, probably because of the increase in obesity.

The aging population will change radically and the company gradually the retirement age will soon be pushed, "said Richard Suzman of the U.S. National Institute on Aging.

"We are within five to 10 years, a crucial event at which more and more people on Earth there are more than 65 years less than five years, he said." These additional year can be funded in a certain way and we must start thinking now."