Aging

Want To Live A Longer Life? - Watch Yor Reaction
by eNotAlone.com
A person's ability to quickly react to different circumstances might better indicate his or her chances for a longer and healthier life, than their blood pressure, weight or exercise levels, reports a new study by British researchers.

Alcohol Effects On Older People
by eNotAlone.com
A glass or two of alcohol not only affects adults after heir 50s much more than their younger drinking counterparts, but they are also less likely to believe that they have been impaired by booze.

Vitamin B Prevents Blindness
by eNotAlone.com
Women who take vitamin B and folic acid supplements are less likely to develop common type of vision loss, called age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a new study reports. Age-related macular degeneration is a progressive disease which leads

Healthy Lifestyle Choices Help Avoid Plastic And Cosmetic Surgery
by eNotAlone.com
Wrinkles of aging are not due to genetics only but also to stressful environmental factors, such as divorce, abnormal weight loss, use of antidepressants and personal lifestyle choices, such as smoking, sun exposure and eating, reports a new study.

Older Women Do Not Benefit From Multivitamin Use
by eNotAlone.com
The largest study ever of multivitamin use in older women found no evidence that using pills can prevent postmenopausal women from developing heart disease and common cancers. Half of all Americans take vitamins and other dietary supplements on a regular

Drinking Coffee: Cons And Pros
by eNotAlone.com
Did you know that 3 cups of coffee a day bring a huge positive effect to your brain and body? Well, according to researchers from Finland and Sweden, they really do. Drinking coffee in moderate amounts in your mid-life improves the work of human brain

Benefits Of The Alcohol for Seniors
by eNotAlone.com
It is not a secret for all of us that consuming a glass or two of wine every day can be good for the heart. But is it true that light to moderate alcohol drinking is actually good for elderly people and even may prevent the development of physical

Fitness Important For Aging Women
by eNotAlone.com
New research, published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, found that women aged 50 to 90 who are aerobically fit and active have better blood flow to the brain which leads in its turn to better cognitive abilities.

But First (And Before I Forget) ...
Where Did I Leave My Glasses?: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss
by Martha Weinman Lear
It is a comfort - NOT total, but I'll take whatever I can get - to know that we're all in this together, complaining more about remembering less. I say all advisedly. It does not mean everyone. It means us: those of us who keep forgetting people's names

The Players In The Immune System
UltraLongevity: The Seven-Step Program for a Younger, Healthier You
by Mark Liponis, M.D.
Do you want to live the longest, healthiest life possible? Do you want to stop aging? Better yet, do you want to reverse aging? According to the latest scientific research, you can control the aging process, simply by paying attention to one thing

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
One of the most interesting and instructive illustrations of the design of our Creator, in the institution of the family state, is the preservation of the aged after their faculties decay and usefulness in ordinary modes seems to be ended.

Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
by Cicero
Should my service, Titus, ease the weight Of care that wrings your heart, and draw the sting Which rankles there, what guerdon shall there he? For I may address you, Atticus, in the lines in which Flamininus was addressed by the man, who, poor in wealth

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
The limits of space in this work render impossible a scientific discussion upon the most interesting subject of longevity, and the reader is referred to some of the modern works devoted exclusively to this subject.

Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
Old age today brings to mind a picture of decrepitude and decay. This is because there is practically no natural old age. Those who live so that they are unhealthy during the early years of life will not be well if they reach advanced years.

Beginning the Chase
Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today
by Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
For centuries, adventurers and scientists have pursued the dream of immortality. Today it appears it might actually be a reality... This is not an anti-aging book. It's a groundbreaking guide to functional aging-extending our healthy and active lives long

Depression in the Elderly
by National Institute of Health
Only one in six elders with clinical depression get diagnosed and treated for the illness, according to a 1997-updated NIH consensus development statement. Although research suggests that rates of depression decrease with age

Taking Your Medicine
by National Institute of Health
The power of our memory often goes down with age. At the same time, aging often brings complicated medication regimens involving several drugs that need to be taken on different schedules throughout the day.

Keys to Successful Aging: Good Habits and Positive Attitudes
by National Institute of Health
You can change how you think, feel and act when you are older simply by changing how you think, feel and act now, geriatrics experts say. Staying healthy, fit and active are the keys to successful aging.

Teaching Old Muscles New Tricks
by National Institute of Health
Lee strode across the exercise room to the next weight machine. She leaned over and set the stack of weights to the thickness of several New York City phone books. She sat down and slowly curled her body forward, lifting the weights with the strength

The Aging Mind: Learning to Adjust to Natural Changes
by National Institute of Health
As our brains age, we're less likely to think as quickly as we used to or remember things as well. But the knowledge we gain from life experience can sometimes compensate for other changes in our brains as we age.