Aging Archive
Too much sleep increases stroke risk after menopause
0 Comments Published July 20th, 2008 in Aging, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Medical News, Medicine, Popular, SleepAHA - Post-menopausal women who regularly sleep more than nine hours a night seem to have an increased risk of ischemic stroke, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association .
Compared to women sleeping seven hours, the risk of ischemic stroke was 60 to 70 percent higher for those sleeping nine hours or [...]
Weight training boosts strength up to 50 percent in seniors
0 Comments Published July 20th, 2008 in Aging, Anti-aging, Exercise, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Medical News, PopularRegular resistance training, or weight training, can boost the physical fitness of older Australians, according to research out of the University of Queensland.
Dr Tim Henwood, a postdoctoral research fellow with UQ and Blue Care, said his recently completed PhD research investigated how people over the age of 65 responded to resistance training.
"What we were looking [...]
Brain food versus junk food - diet affects you and your children
0 Comments Published July 16th, 2008 in Aging, Anti-aging, Children, Exercise, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Medical News, Nutrition, Omega-3, Parents, PopularUCLA.edu - In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders, perhaps even benefiting your children and grandchildren.
"Food is like a pharmaceutical compound that affects the brain," said Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological [...]
Excess cortisol from chronic stress speeds aging, shortens telomeres
1 Comment Published July 16th, 2008 in Aging, Anti-aging, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Life, Medical News, Popular, StressNew research shows how too much of a rushed, overbooked, multi-tasking, high-stress, "Manhattan-pace" lifestyle is shortening your lifespan and stunning your immune system at the cellular level, by inhibiting the cells youth enzyme, telomerase.
Every cell contains a tiny clock called a telomere, which shortens each time the cell divides. Short telomeres are linked to a [...]
Exercise preserves brain health in early Alzheimer’s
0 Comments Published July 15th, 2008 in Aging, Anti-aging, Exercise, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Medical News, Medicine, Mental HealthAAN.com - Mild Alzheimer’s disease patients with higher physical fitness had larger brains compared to mild Alzheimer’s patients with lower physical fitness, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008 issue of Neurology ®.
For the study, 121 people age 60 and older underwent exercise fitness tests using a treadmill as well as brain [...]
Medications likely to increase risk of falling
0 Comments Published July 12th, 2008 in Aging, General Interest, Health, Health News, Health and Wellness, Medical News, Medicine, PopularResearchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
“Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older, and [...]














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