The advancement of age is not something that is just innately associated with the passing of time. Aging is something that starts when we officially become adults, carries forward while we endure our middle age and then after we reach fifty years old it appears to pick up the pace. Some individuals consider the process [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 27, 2010
When was the last time you heard the phrase – you are what you eat? After reading this text you may want to post it in neon lights on your refrigerator. I am not suggesting that one day you will mysteriously awaken looking like a linguini noodle. However, we all need to pay closer attention [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 26, 2010
A vital step towards extended and healthy longevity is taking responsibility for your fitness and health. If you have not done so yet, it is time to change that. Failure to do so will mean a life that is wracked by illness and disease and a future that is not very bright. We all must [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 22, 2010
Scientists have advanced significantly in the research on aging. It is on high time now to try to change knowledge gathered from aging research into medicine so that the aging population can benefit. This is what Jan Vijg, Ph.D, who is the chair of genetics and the Lola and Saul Kramer Chair in Molecular Genetics [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 19, 2010
If you read enough literature on health related topics you will soon stumble upon yet another health warning or method of slowing the aging process. We would all surely love to extend our life span if possible but not all of us are prepared to make the sacrifices required to do so. I mean, just [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 16, 2010
Living a long healthy life is essentially up to each individual. We all want to live as long as we can, even those of us with health issues and those who make poor lifestyle choices. What happens when you get your wish and live unexpectedly longer than you or your physician ever thought was possible? [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 16, 2010
The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created – created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The average individual who thinks about these things would be happy with an average life expectancy and maybe more if it is in the cards or better still – their genes. Should we expect to live beyond average longevity? What about maximum longevity? Some interesting things are being researched these days concerning life extension – [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 13, 2010
One way of defining longevity is the amount of years a person lives as established from physiological inheritance or one’s genes with environmental factors thrown in for good measure. Two kinds of longevity exist and they are known as maximum longevity and average longevity. Average longevity is normally recognized as average life expectancy; this referring [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 11, 2010
The question is who will be able to live to a 100? Scientists say that the answer might be encrypted in our genes. Scientists from Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and the Boston Medical Center have spotted genes that are related to longevity. They have also been able to predict through the [...]
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