Chemical Engineering in Life – Question 51: As a chemical engineer, how can one live a long life?

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This post was last edited by yjqin1 on 2015-8-24 at 14:39. The TJDX Chemical Machinery specialty was established in 1952 during the merger of departments; its head of the teaching and research section (equivalent to a department head today) was Dr. Yu Guocong, a leading figure in the field of chemistry, a renowned patriot (who, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, served as secretary-general of the Association of Scientists in the United States, mobilized thousands of patriots to return to China to contribute to its development, and in 1952 gave up his position at an American university to return to China with his family). He was also an expert in separation processes, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. This specialty was responsible for separating heavy water from ordinary water using distillation methods. The specialization in chemical engineering was established in 1984 as the TJDX Chemical Engineering Research Institute, and at that time I was fortunate enough to become Mr. Yu’s master’s student. The teachers at the Chemical Engineering Research Institute share one characteristic: they all live long lives. With the exception of one 78-year-old man who passed away not long after suffering the loss of his spouse, and another man who died in Canada at the age of 84, the rest of them are in good health. During the 63 years from 1952 to 2015, only these two gentlemen became underground activists, and as men, their lifespan was also well above the average life expectancy for Chinese men, which is 73 years. Now, there are three people in their nineties (I still encounter them on campus), a large number in their eighties (with two of them still driving), few in their seventies (**a life gap**), just one in their sixties (an engineer-p Farmers- soldier trainee); as for the rest, it’s my own age group (50±5). I have been trying to figure out why those in the chemical industry (the distillation department at TJDX Chemical Research Institute is number one in the country) live such long lives; I have been doing this analysis for a long time now. Please choose the multiple-choice question: which one is the factor for their long life? 1. Work in the chemical industry for a lifetime ； 2. Spent half a lifetime working on heavy water ； 3. High salaries, high earnings ； 4. I was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution (it was certain that I would be labeled a \"diseased ninth class\" member; those who returned from abroad were surely considered spies) ； 5. Large living space (in 1986, Mr. Yu lived in a small villa, while those with the rank of associate professor or higher lived in three-bedroom houses) ； 6. No smoking (no one smokes) 7. Send children abroad (live by oneself) ； 8. A positive mindset ； 9. Strong sense of achievement (since 1962, people have praised it) ； 10. Excessive exposure to chemical substances leads to resistance; mist, toxic rice, toxic leeks, and heavy metals are nothing compared to that ； 11. Fasting and chanting Buddha’s name ； 12. Taking traditional Chinese medicine, practicing qigong, and maintaining health ； 13. They came from wealthy families and had good nutrition from a young age ； 14. They have longevity genes ； 15. Since 2005, I have been giving ginseng, multivitamins and minerals, as well as fish oil from the deep sea to the elderly people (my master’s supervisor, my PhD supervisor, my master’s supervisor from the same county, and three fellow villagers), and telling them to have their children abroad send these products on a regular basis so that they can take them regularly; over time this will yield results ； 16. Minimize exposure to toxic chemicals.