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Home Remedies & Natural Remedies by Ailment

Aging                        see also age spots

National Institute of Aging  Government site with information on research and practical resources for the aging population.

National Council on Aging The National Council on Aging promoting the dignity self-determination well-being and continuing contributions of older persons through education research.

Growing Old Gracefully

The average life-span in the United States  70 years for women and a little less for men. Conservative experts believe that man is really build to last about 100 years; and that medical advances and more healthy lifestyles could bring this about within a generation or two.

What good is it to add years to life if we do not also add life to years? In fact unless people learn to enjoy life and to grow old gracefully the extra years may be an additional burden in old age.

After age 50 aging is no longer able to offset the now more rapidly energy and therefore aging begins to assert itself noticeably and in many ways. Also in the forties people are likely to put on weight because there is a general slowdown in the oxidation rate of the aging body tissue. Also we tend to do less strenuous work with no reduction in the amount of food consumed.

And in the fifties there is likely to be some loss of hearing that comes with aging.  Aging is generally accompanied by a loss in physical and mental flexibility. This is noticed in a tendency to become stiff in the joints; in slower comeback after a strenuous trip excessive "night life " or hard work; in slower healing of wounds sore muscles and sprains; in slower aging recovery of pep after an illness; and in greater difficulty to adjust to new people new places and new ideas.

Aging

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