{"id":77289,"date":"2018-03-30T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T22:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/is-aging-the-worlds-biggest-problem"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:14:31","slug":"is-aging-the-worlds-biggest-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/is-aging-the-worlds-biggest-problem","title":{"rendered":"Is Aging The World\u2019s Biggest Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msZL6_LmG_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, aging is the world\u2019s biggest problem!<\/p>\n<p>In this article I\u2019ve compared aging to other potential world problems in terms of how many years of life each problem takes away from an average person.<\/p>\n<p>Aging takes away about 1000 years of life per person in developed countries, so, obviously, no other problem comes close to that.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What\u2019s the world\u2019s biggest problem? Is it possible to say? Well, to be able to compare alternatives, you at least need some criterion to evaluate against, and what should that criterion be?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some possibilities:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/is-aging-the-worlds-biggest-problem\">Continue reading \u201cIs Aging The World\u2019s Biggest Problem?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, aging is the world\u2019s biggest problem! In this article I\u2019ve compared aging to other potential world problems in terms of how many years of life each problem takes away from an average person. Aging takes away about 1000 years of life per person in developed countries, so, obviously, no other problem comes close to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77447,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77289\/revisions\/77447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}