The two stories seem unrelated but are actually tightly linked, and together raise the age-old question: If people are too lazy (or busy) to walk from the car to the burger counter, does it really matter if the fries have a little less fat?
The University of Oklahoma Medical Center and Children's Hospital together treated 93 patients, who ranged in age from younger than 4 years old to older than 85.
Putting these ideas together suggests that women whose genes are likely to carry them into a ripe oldage should also undergo a later menopause (and therefore be able to reproduce for longer) than those genetically destined to die young.