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Can Exercise Keep You Young?

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Can Exercise Keep You Young?
Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, a professor of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was startled to discover that exercise kept a strain of mice from becoming gray prematurely.
…. heartening new research published last week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, exercise reduced or eliminated almost every detrimental effect of aging in mice that had been genetically programmed to grow old at an accelerated pace.
NY Times – March 2, 2011

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7/04/10 – Wellness – Center for Healthy Living-Donna Guadisio Zeale

dennis — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:44:46 +0000

The enactment of the recent health reform act may be the just the catalyst needed to move Americans in the direction of taking personal responsibility for wellness. While it seems that Washington may have just discovered this approach to better utilization of health care services, hospitals like Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, long ago realized this and launched very successful programs. Working with individuals and corporate employers in the area, they have helped to bring health awareness and proactive health care to a group of people not previously in the system. Donna Guadisio Zeale, Director of the Center for Healthy Living discusses their approach and plans for the future.

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Demystifying Your Aging Parents' New Stage of Life

dennis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:30:04 +0000

Those of us who are caring for elderly parents are often bewildered by the decisions they make — and by their seemingly stubborn refusal to follow our advice. We shake our heads over their obsession with the past, their caution, and the glacial pace with which they make decisions and move through the world.

http://www.caring.com/articles/communicating-with-elderly-parents

Secrets Of The Centanarians

dennis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:53:56 +0000

Regardless of centenarian findings, Perls said, evidence is emerging suggesting that people can make choices affecting their longevity… good lifelong habits, such as maintaining healthy diets, exercising, practicing religion, not smoking and so on, had an average life expectancy of 88 years–about 10 years more than the United States population as a whole. Most of the added years, he said, are healthy ones with limited illness and disability.

http://www.asaging.org/at/at-263/ASANCOAJointConference_SecretsOfTheCentanarians.cfm

Obesity can shorten lifespan up to a decade

dennis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:28:36 +0000

Obesity shaves two to four years off the average lifespan, while being very obese can shorten your lifespan by 8 to 10 years, according to a new analysis of 57 studies including nearly 900,000 people.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/diseases/articles/obesity_can_shorten_lifespan_up_to_a_decade.html