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People who live to 95 or older are no more virtuous than the rest of us in terms of their diet, exercise routine or smoking and drinking habits, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University…"This study suggests that centenarians may possess additional longevity genes that help to buffer them against the harmful effects of an unhealthy lifestyle." -Eureka Alert

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"Third, baldness cues old age. Men who bald prematurely see an older self and therefore age faster: Prematurely bald men have an excess risk of getting prostate cancer and coronary heart disease than do men who do not prematurely bald."

This is a ridiculous jump from correlation to causality. Men who bald prematurely have at least one accelerated aging process! AND, they are likely to have high testosterone, and thus have higher chances of prostate cancer.

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