Better nutrition, better conditioning, and the ability to fix body parts is helping many people live healthier longer. The shift was noted today by an AP sports writer Rob Maaddi, who found that a record seven pitchers in their 40s were scheduled to Major League Baseball games today:

Yankees’ Roger Clemens (44), Philadelphia’s Jamie Moyer (44), Detroit’s Kenny Rogers (42), San Diego’s Greg Maddux (41), the New York Mets’ Tom Glavine (41), Houston’s Woody Williams (40) and Atlanta’s John Smoltz (40).

Modern surgeries play a role, and exercise (once a joke in baseball) helps, too.

While much of America grows obese and develops preventable illnesses owing to lousy diets and lack of exercise, these old timers show that indeed, life does not end at 40 as many thirty-somethings used to think.

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