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Want to Live to 100? Take Life's Curveballs in Stride
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsHelen Reichert has a large social network of friends in her community. She loves chocolate truffles and Budweiser beer and recently considered taking up smoking again. When her doctor protested about the smoking, she reminded him she'd outlived several physicians and told him he should mind his own business. Helen Reichert is 109 years old. Her doctor, Dr. Mark Lachs, is director of geriatrics for New York Presbyterian Health Care System and the author of a new book, "Treat Me, Not My Age." Lachs says that while Reichert is probably blessed with a longevity gene, she also possesses a powerful ...
Research Shows Exercise Reverses Aging in Mice
By Rebecca Delaney - AOL NewsDr. Mark Tarnopolsky is not a couch potato. The professor of pediatrics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, recently placed first in his age group in a series of trail races in the United States and Canada. He's also competed internationally in winter triathlons, ski orienteering and adventure racing. However, if he feels burnt out and needs a little motivation to hit the gym, he needs only to look to his lab. Tarnopolsky recently published a groundbreaking study with Ph.D. student Adeel Safdar that found exercise reversed the signs of aging in mice. Tarnopolsky specializes in ...
Scientists Find Fountain of Youth ... in Mice
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- Scientists have been able to reverse the aging process in mice, a stunning feat that may help regenerate organs in elderly humans, according to a new study published online in the journal Nature. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy rodents by regenerating their aged bodies. OJO Images When scientists increased levels of the enzyme telomerase in the mice, their organs began to rejuvenate, according to a new study. "These mice were equivalent to 80-year-old humans and were about to pass ...
Women's Longer Lifespans Explained: Men Are 'Genetically Disposable'
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Women can credit their longer lifespans to genetic resiliency, says a new study that deems men to be "genetically more disposable" than the fairer sex. Us ladies tend to live five or six years longer than our male peers. In the United States, that means a woman's life expectancy is around 80 years, while that of a man is closer to 75. But surprisingly, the divergence between men's and women's relative life expectancy actually holds true in myriad locales around the world -- industrialized or not. Why? Experts still aren't sure, but an idea dubbed "disposable soma theory" is ...
Protein Cocktail the Latest 'Elixir of Life' Contender
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- A combination of amino acids -- the key components of proteins -- might one day offer a significant longevity boost for humans, especially the elderly and the ailing. And the mixture is already available for sale: known as BCAA nutritional supplements, they're a common go-to for athletes and body builders. An Italian research team, studying middle-aged male mice, found that an elixir of three amino acids -- valine, leucine and isoleucine -- increased the animals' lifespan by 12 percent. For the mice, that amounted to about 100 days. The same difference in humans, relative to ...
Is 'Precocious Puberty' a Health Hazard for American Girls?
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- American girls are undergoing puberty earlier than ever, some of them developing breasts by age 7. Now, armed with a spate of research accumulated over the past decade and a new study published today, health experts are voicing concerns over the physical -- and psychological -- implications. What does the relevant research reveal? A study published online today in Pediatrics evaluated 1,239 girls age 6 to 8. Researchers used breast development to gauge the onset of puberty. By age 7, 23 percent of blacks, 15 percent of Hispanics and 10 percent of whites had developed enough to ...
Chin Up, Gen X'ers: Obama's Right There With You
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWhen I offered unsolicited advice, guys, I didn't mean to crush your Generation X dreams and hearts like a cigarette butt. If you don't want to, you don't have to grow up. I'm 14 years old at heart and still think I'm going to live happily ever after with Simon Le Bon. (Although I did get into a wicked argument with him circa 1998 after a Duran Duran concert, and he broke my heart into tiny pieces when he acted so rudely. But that's another story.) Punk Peter Pans, stay young. Keep playing video games. It's OK to still long for Asteroids. Get giddy about the new Tron movie. Please believe ...
Advice to Lonely Gen X Men: Lose the 'What ifs' and Past Loves
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyIt's an epidemic lately: the wistful what-if. My Generation X guy pals are consumed by this ailment. "What if I had asked so-and-so to marry me 10 years ago?" "What if I had agreed to the baby . . . would she have stayed?" "What if I had moved to Seattle and not stayed close to family?" Oh, the laments. They play like a Nirvana song among the never-married or divorced former slacker boys. When I read Andrew Cohen's Politics Daily piece about the love of his life marrying someone else, the same symptoms popped up. I immediately wanted to invite him out for a beer and listen as he talked ...
Eldersex: Love Among the Ruined?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyRemember when Tom Jones was the tackiest thing on two legs? I realized I was way out of the mainstream in my taste in men when I saw all those women throwing underwear on stage. To me, Tom Jones was the epitome of sleaze. His big hits were some of the most reviled songs of my youth. But then I had not seen Tom Jones in 1964, before Vegas got hold of him. Pretty hot, if you ask me. Now, half a century later, he's releasing a brand-new album. "Praise & Blame" comes out on July 26. Believe it or not, Tom Jones is looking kind of hot again. You see, I'm old. I'm very, very old. The fact that ...
You Will Get Alzheimer's. Discuss.
By Mia Navarro - Politics DailyDo we really want to know? The latest news on the Alzheimer's disease front is that medical experts are proposing new diagnostic guidelines to detect the illness before there are any noticeable symptoms. In other words, your doctor would be able to tell you -- "You will get Alzheimer's" -- even when your memory is fine and your main worry is losing those 10 pounds to fit into the right dress for your high school reunion. And then, the worse news: There are no drugs right now that can help you prevent the disease. I read this news in a New York Times report this week with great interest, ...
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