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Turkish Citizen Aged 121 Years
121 year old Turkish citizen, Gaışhıkaan Sıhıkaan, immigrated to Turkey in 1953 It may have taken awhile, but 121-year-old Gaışhıkaan Sıhıkaan finally became a Turkish citizen. On September 16, 2011, Habermonitor.com produced a news report that summarized this event. In 1890, in the town of Manisa Salihli, Sıhıkaan was born. After 58 years of living [...]
Continue reading...The More You Help, The Longer You live.
19. September 2011
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People who volunteer to help others rather than for their selves live longer than people who don’t do things for others. This was revealed in a new researched study. It is also said that people who volunteer for their personal contentment do on average have the same lifespan as those who don’t volunteers at all. [...]
Continue reading...Are Seniors Learning From Their Mistakes?
18. September 2011
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We all know that kids learn from their mistakes. However, new research is suggesting that this principle applies to seniors as well. This research finding was developed at a research center based in Toronto, called Baycrest. Baycrest’s research is contradicting previous research that proposed that seniors had a barrier in their learning process when it [...]
Continue reading...Aged People In Trouble
18. September 2011
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Life in a country facing explosions of capricious pecuniary state is facing the ignorance of a snubbed community traditionally called as Senior Citizens. This deprived community is not only facing social issues but health, economic and lack in public services are supplementing their loneliness. In the view of ripened people, they are encountering the foremost [...]
Continue reading...For 43 % of Koreans – Longevity Isn’t a Priority
27. August 2011
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A recent survey reveals that 43 percent of Koreans don’t consider living beyond the age of 90 as a blessing. In June, the Korean Institute for Health & Social Affairs had a poll of 1,000 Koreans where it was revealed that 43.3 percent of the participants didn’t really aspire to live beyond the age of [...]
Continue reading...Longevity: 15 Minutes of Exercise Is All You Need
24. August 2011
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Experts say that 15 minutes of exercise per day is all you need to increase your longevity by three years. So you might no longer be able to say that you are too busy to enjoy exercise. A relatively new study, released in the Lancet Medical Journal, highlighted that 1 in 9 cancer-related deaths could [...]
Continue reading...Calorie Restriction: Is It A Pathway towards Longevity?
21. August 2011
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There is a growing belief that calorie restriction is the key to longevity. Dr. John B Carrigan is now in search for a potential drug that might enlighten the quest for longer human lifespan. The debates on calorie restriction are swinging from one side to the other. Is it really the elixir of youth or [...]
Continue reading...Longevity Pill for Mice – Promising for Human Beings
20. August 2011
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The Fountain of Youth is a chimera but the possibility for longer life may be achieved. An article in Thursday’s issue of Scientific Reports states that researchers have created a new drug that can improve the longevity of mice by 44 percent in contrast to those not given the drug. The latter is a synthetic [...]
Continue reading...African People on HIV Drugs Can Expect to live A Normal Lifespan
17. August 2011
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Recently, on the world conference on AIDS medicine held in Rome, it was announced that Africans on HIV drugs can expect to have a more-or-less normal lifespan. Yet, women suffering from AIDS are expected to outlive men. This was the result of the world’s largest study on AIDS drug and people. Specialized researchers from BC [...]
Continue reading...Belief that Pets Make Owners Healthier Contested by US Study
14. August 2011
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It is universally acknowledged that pet owners experience less stress and hence have a longer life span. Yet, this remains an assumption, not a fact. A recent US study asserts that this common belief may not be true. The findings of Howard Herzog, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, reveal that past studies [...]
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20. September 2011
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