Anti-Ageing
Ageing is a natural process, but the rate at which we age is, to a degree, under our control. Many people say you are as old as you feel, and a positive mental outlook coupled with a healthy diet is vital if you want to slow the ageing process. People who are negative and angry tend to age faster than happy, relaxed people do. A study was done in the United States where a group of men in their seventies were installed in a university campus, which had been transformed into a replica university from the 1950s. The men were dressed in clothes from the fifties and asked to behave just as they did when attending college. After three weeks the researchers assessed each individual for the biological age by measuring factors such as muscle strength and blood pressure. Biological age had decreased by an average of three years so it certainly helps to think young! What is Ageing? Ageing is defined as growing old, maturing. Mentally, it can be seen as growing wiser, developing like a fine wine. It signifies progressive changes related to the passage of time. Physically, it means not replacing enough cells to maintain complete function. There is no precise method for determining the rate or degree of ageing. It is the physiological changes that occur with ageing that we need to look at and hopefully slow down.
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