WERE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER

What does a fitness class that is now in its eighty-sixth year have to do with retaining your mental capacity well into your nineties? Why do these people eat what they want, ignore the experts on the Mediterranean diet, the five a day, and drink tea to hydrate themselves? , Why do they value the company of others above the exercises? How do they unwittingly practice mental disciplines espoused by the world&rsquo,s top neuroscientists on defeating dementia? &lsquo,We train the right side and the left side of the brain&rsquo,, says Mary McDaid from County Wicklow. , &lsquo,We can do this forever&rsquo,, says Sally Floyd from Edinburgh. &lsquo,I am going to live to be a hundred&rsquo,, says John Higson from Bolton, and now at ninety-five looks like he&rsquo,s going to make it. &lsquo,My Grandmother said to me