in rude health
phrase

- very good health
- strong and healthy

Cambridge Dictionary / Merriam-Webster

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ORIGIN

From Anglo-Norman rud, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French rude, Old French ruide. The meaning (of a person’s body) robust, vigorous, strong, is from 1426.

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SUPER-CENTENARIANS IN RUDE HEALTH

A super-centenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians who typically live a life free of major age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached.

The longest a human has ever been proven to live was Jeanne Calment, who was born in 1875 and died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. Calment even met Vincent Van Gogh.

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RUDE HEALTH FOREVER

The “2045 Initiative”, founded by Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov in February 2011, is a nonprofit organization devoted to extending life through the replacement of biological organs with mechanical ones. The eventual goal is enabling the transfer of an individual’s personality to a more advanced non-biological carrier, and extending life, including to the point of immortality, by the year 2045.

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“The company is over 160 years old and is still in RUDE HEALTH.”

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