Makes you wonder about these people they lived so long most of them working hard and eating responsible, not like we eat now. My grandmother lived to be 103 while my grandfathers sister lived to be 106. Both were Volga Germans. Kevin Rupp Sunflower Chapter VC -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of S. Zitzer Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:24 AM To: Charles Parcels Cc: ger-volga@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GV] Eat Kuchen - It Calms the Nerves Ken's mention of his grandmother living to 90 makes me wonder about the longevity of the adults who immigrated from the Volga. My immigrant grandmother lived to be 100. My immigrant grandfather died younger but he drank a lot of alcohol all his life and died of cancer of the pancreas at 79. We always thought my grandmother lived so long because she worked so hard all her life since she was poor in Russia and relatively poor here in the US too. Did other adult immigrants live especially long lives here too? I wonder if their hard lives in Russia contributed to longevity. I'm not including the younger immigrants or the children born here in the US because their lives would be different since they would be affected by the American way of life at an early age. I think the average life expectancy in the US at this time is 79. But it looks like a lot of the German-Russian immigrants live a lot longer than that. Just wondering, Sally (Katharinenstadt, Wiesenmueller) Edgewood, WA > KLpelzel@aol.com wrote: > Carla, Thanks for the recipe! Hope to try it out. I doubt if this would > be included in a Nutrasystem diet! But then, my Grandmother who lived to > 90 made this kind of stuff daily, ( Gee maybe she would have lived to 91 > on the Nutrasystem stuff!) > > Ken ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message