{"id":851121,"date":"2026-09-17T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851121\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:20:08","slug":"having-a-parent-live-to-100-gives-you-a-leg-up-on-longevity-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851121\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a parent live to 100 gives you a leg up on longevity, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2YUVJZGIWVAANO522PX5ID6BOI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">There\u2019s a distance of 43 years between the oldest known human to ever live, Jeanne Calment, who died at age 122, and the current U.S. life expectancy of 79 years. \u201cThe chances of making it to 100 for the vast majority of the population is remote,\u201d said S. Jay Olshansky, an emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A new study on the offspring of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/02\/02\/100-year-old-advice-life-centenarians\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/02\/02\/100-year-old-advice-life-centenarians\/\">centenarians<\/a> provides some insight into who is more likely to live that long (or longer). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a distance of 43 years between the oldest known human to ever live, Jeanne Calment, who died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-851121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}