Category Archives: Health

Good Health Habits=Longevity

  You’ve heard the constant drumbeat about the need to eat a healthy diet, exercise regularly, maintain your proper weight, get enough sleep, drink in moderation, and quit smoking if you want to live long and well. Now scientists have … Continue reading

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Ageing brains can be rewired

Undergoing highly sensory experiences throughout lifetime can benefit an ageing brain by aiding the rewiring process. While it has long been thought that the brain’s wiring is fixed by adolescence, astudy by researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute and Columbia … Continue reading

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Keys to a long life: expressing yourself, being optimistic, and having a laugh

New research further supports the notion of a longevity personality, finding that people who are optimistic, easygoing, social, and enjoy having a good laugh live longer than their more neurotic counterparts. Israeli researchers who have been trying to decode the … Continue reading

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Well-connected brains make you smarter in older age

Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us sharp in later life, new research funded by the charity Age UK has found Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us sharp in … Continue reading

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POSITIVE AGEING: Challenge your negativity

Negativity is also termed as pessimism. It is a way of approaching the world with pessimism. A person with negative attitude towards life assumes that whatever happens is somehow, will take away one’s well-being, peace of mind or life satisfaction. … Continue reading

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The benefits of napping

With age come changes in the structure and quality of our sleep. After about age 60, we have less deep (slow-wave) sleep and more rapid sleep cycles, we awaken more often, and we sleep an average of two hours less … Continue reading

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Ageing Could Be A Thing Of The Past

Richard Ricci 23 apr 2012 Are we about to enter the age of Methuselah? Scientists think they may be on the verge of slowing down – or even stopping – the ageing process by isolating a genetic off ‘switch’. Scientists … Continue reading

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Regular jogging may increase longevity

Denmark,Health/Medicine,Lifestyle/Fashion,Science/Tech, Fri, 04 May 2012 IANS Regular jogging can add up more than six years to male life expectancy and 5.6 years to women’s longevity, reveals the latest data from the Copenhagen City Heart Study (CCHS). According to chief cardiologist … Continue reading

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Happier people live longer lives

Older people live longer if they are happier, according to new research into the importance of emotional wellbeing. By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 7:00PM GMT 31 Oct 2011 A study of 3,800 people aged 52 to 79 found that those … Continue reading

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Happiness Levels Rise After The Age Of 45, Study Reveals

Dispelling the myth that we get grumpier as we get older, a new study has found the opposite is true and that our happiness levels soar from the age of 45. Researchers from Warwick Medical School at the University of … Continue reading

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