Aging & Longevity Articles/News

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Cobblestones Improve Elderly Balance, Blood Pressure - Looking to lower your blood pressure and improve your balance? Try walking . . . on cobblestones.

Massive Study Touts Mediterranean Diet for Seniors - The Mediterranean diet – with it emphasis on vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, cereals and olive oil – has long been considered one of the healthiest around. It should come as no surprise then that a recent British Medical Journal study found that a slightly modified version of the diet helped seniors live longer.

Experts Warn Vegetarians, Seniors on B12 - Ripping a page from the Bingo playbook, experts are now advising people – particularly vegetarians and older adults – to start taking B12 supplements.

Life expectancy gains may end, expert says - A century of steadily lengthening life spans may soon be over, a prominent population expert warned at a recent conference on aging and health.

Aging: Is it a power failure? - They are the power plants within our cells, crucial for life, and concentrated in the tissues that often deteriorate the most as we age -- the brain, the heart, the muscles, the eyes. But are the mitochondria a driving force in aging?

Anti-Aging Science, Part I - “Who wants to live forever?” asks the title song of the 1986 blockbuster Highlander that deals with immortality; yet we should ask, who doesn’t? Wouldn’t you like to be a frisky 200-year-old if it were possible to maintain your health and well-being?

Seniors shape up - Seniors seeking the Fountain of Youth are heading to the local gym.

Seniors live it up, live longer - Eighty-nine-year-old Jeri Hall wasn't sure she'd be walking, much less dancing after breaking her knee during September's Hurricane Frances, but she will take the stage in a grass skirt to give it all she's got.

Free program provides secrets to aging well - Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine at Boston Medical Center, director of the New England Centenarian Study and author of Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age, is recognized as this country's authority on living well longer...

Hormone Protects Against Diseases of Aging - It has been touted as a "superhormone" and the fountain of youth, and now research offers more evidence that DHEA replacement may help protect against several diseases linked to aging.

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