Used in a sentence: "If you haven't yet settled on your resolutions for 2013, and if you're needing a way to quantify some of your suggested behavioral changes, this innovative approach to looking at how your actions affect your chance to cheat death (or to advance it, on the flip side) called micro-lives may just be the thing to help you decide."
Here's the way it works -- a micro-life is 30 minutes of your existence, and here's how to get more of them or how to watch them slip away (as per the latest issue of Scientific American):
first 20 minutes of exercise -- add 2 micro-lives
subsequent 40 minutes of exercise -- add 1 micro-life
eat 1.25 servings of fruits and vegetables -- add 1 micro-life
first 10 grams of alcohol -- add 1 micro-life
each drink of alcohol beyond first -- subtract .5 micro-lives
eat 85 grams of red meat -- subtract 1 micro-life
smoke six cigarettes -- subtract 3 micro-lives
sit two hours without activity -- subtract 1 micro-life
be overweight (each day, for each 5 kilograms above the optimum) -- subtract 1 micro-life
What an opportunity to calculate your life slowly ending -- but all in a fun mathy kind of way. Ummm ... Happy New Year!
THE SOURCE:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-gain-or-lose-30-minutes-of-life-everyday
OR TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO MICRO-MORTS:
http://understandinguncertainty.org/microlives
UM .. OR THERE'S THIS APPROACH:
http://mashable.com/2012/12/31/wtf-new-years-resolutions/
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