{"id":1483,"date":"2009-03-15T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2009-03-15T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T14:05:58","slug":"peaking-at-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/peaking-at-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaking at 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/099200903151651.htm'>The Hindu<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Believe it or not, old age begins at 27, says researchers.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has revealed that many well-known effects of ageing may start decades before the twilight years when old age is often blamed for causing many people to misplace keys, forget a word or lose the train of thought.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, according to the researchers, people&#8217;s mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Is that really what the researchers say?<\/p>\n<p>If so, it&#8217;s dumb.<\/p>\n<p>If old age begins at 27 and life expectancy is 72 (I picked that number out of my cranial thin air), we spend almost all our adult lives as old people. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>Oh hey! Look at that. Old age actually begins at 72, but the researchers were dyslexic! \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, this is a good reminder of what the Creator had recorded in <strike>Ecclesiastes<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/2-298.html\">Psalm 90:12<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8220;So teach us to number our days,<br \/>\nthat we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hindu reports: Believe it or not, old age begins at 27, says researchers. A new study has revealed that many well-known effects of ageing may start decades before the twilight years when old age is often blamed for causing many people to misplace keys, forget a word or lose the train of thought. In &#8230; <a title=\"Peaking at 22\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/peaking-at-22\/\" aria-label=\"More on Peaking at 22\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-youve-been-warned"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-nV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}