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...Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Are you searching for ways to increase your life expectancy beyond the average? Have you become obsessed with outliving your parents and theirs? Pretty well everyone has longevity as a goal as they begin to age and their own mortality begins to rear its frightful head. Who the heck would not want to live a [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 8, 2010
Healthy Eating is something that many seniors are lacking, especially when they must prepare their own meals. A balanced diet is vital at this stage of their lives and many are not getting what they require from diet alone. Healthy eating is important at any age but it becomes singularly important in the elder years [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 6, 2010
It took clinical science about seventy years to finally associate the discoveries credited to Pasteur and Hay regarding the potential reasons we age by figuring out our longevity and how swiftly we age is linked to our pH balance. Nearly every bite of food we ingest these days is forming acid in our systems, additionally [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 2, 2010
It was only four centuries ago that man believed that the sun actually circled about the earth. And it was just in the late 1800’s that medical practitioners stopped the inhumane procedure of bloodletting which at one time was considered to be the one thing that could cure nearly anything. It makes a person happy [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 1, 2010
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You may have heard the phrases “old age is cruel” or “aging is akin to regretting” and it is unfortunate but also true that there are many elderly people who feel regret and are in fact living with the cruel reality that is old age. These people have reached their elder years with nothing more [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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A team of scientists from Yale University states that it has accomplished a crucial initial step in the regeneration of completely functional lung tissue that can replace gas, which is the main role of the lungs. Their papers were published in the June issue of Science Express. Lung disease is responsible for nearly 400,000 deaths [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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On this planet earth of ours, as beautiful as it is, problems abound. We have shortages of fresh water, our climate is altering in ways we cannot seem to agree upon, ice caps are dwindling and our breathable air continues to absorb immense quantities of pollution. Those are just the main problems; the media darlings [...]
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