Info From The Mayo Clinic About Aging
Info From The Mayo Clinic About Aging. It is quite obvious that aging changes your body in a variety of ways. It is easier to live a longer, healthier life if you are aware of your body and take care of it appropriately.
The Mayo Clinic offers some thoughts on the different changes that you experience, whether you realize it or not. Your heart becomes less efficient at pumping and your blood vessels lose their flexibility. Eventually this can turn into high blood pressure or heart disease.
Eating a healthy diet and getting plenty of exercise can help control it. When you are in your 20s, your bones stop growing. As you age, you may get shorter since your bones shrink. Bone density can lessen, and muscles and joints become less flexible. Some of this can be lessened with weight training and medication. Your digestive system slows down as you age.
This can lead to constipation, weight gain, and loss of appetite. Fruit, vegetables, and drinking plenty of water can help. On the other end of the spectrum, your kidneys lose some of the ability to remove waste, and many older people lose control of bladder function to some extent.
Medications can help in some cases. The brain changes as you get older as well. The brain loses some of the neurons that transmit information, and the memory tends to fade. Reflexes may also slow down, causing you to become clumsier. Oftentimes, some brain cell connections will increase to help compensate.
Even your senses change. Eyes get cloudy and you may need glasses when you did not before. Hearing loss is also common, making it hard to follow a conversation. There are options for both, including surgeries, implants, and glasses or hearing aids.
In your mouth, you may be more prone to infections or tooth decay. Getting regular dental checkups will catch most problems before they become uncorrectable.
Health Tips
They do not take aging as a process they cannot avoid; they try postponing it as long as possible. Botox, plastic surgery, tummy tucks, are considered normal for most adults in today's society.
Today's population is living longer; many are working past retirement age, and practice a healthy lifestyle.
Healthy aging includes eating a healthy diet, engaging in regular physical activity, and avoiding tobacco products.
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Your skin and hair change as you get older, becoming thinner and losing flexibility. You may see your hair turn grey and wrinkles form. Sweat glands become less efficient, so you need to drink more water when outside for extended periods.
Just under half of all people will have skin cancer by the time they are a senior, so keep watch on any changes in your skin. Your actual needs for sleep usually will not change, but you might find it harder staying asleep.
You may find yourself needing to stay in bed longer or taking a nap during the day to get the same amount of rest. Your metabolism slows down with age, which can make it a lot easier to but on weight. If you have not already, you will want to talk to your doctor about a diet and exercise routine that will help you maintain a healthy weight.
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Aging is a normal part of life. We all have to go through 4 stages, childhood, teenhood, adulthood, and our senior years. Just be happy that you have lived long enough to be around for the last stage. Not everybody is lucky enough to makes it that far. |
Even though your entire body changes as you age, that does not mean that you cannot live a long and healthy life. Once you are aware of the possible changes and things you can do about them, you can take steps to keep your body in as good of shape as possible. Simple things like adjustments in your diet, getting adequate exercise, and seeing your doctor often can make all the difference.
Healthy Aging Issues Today
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10/06/2008
Study focuses on aging oil, gas infrastructure (Anchorage Daily News)
A long-awaited study of the risks posed by Alaska's aging oil and gas infrastructure is beginning this fall. The study was an outgrowth of the spills, leaks and corrosion discovered on the North Slope in the past few years. Last year, the Legislature approved $5 million for it.
Study focuses on aging oil, gas infrastructure (Anchorage Daily News)
10/06/2008
6 foods that ward off aging (Belleville News-Democrat)
There might not be a fountain of youth, but there might be a pantry of youth. People who stock up on the right foods can turn back the clock, according to Karen Ansel, a dietitian and author of "The Anti-Aging Diet" story in last month's Family Circle. Ditch red meat, full-fat dairy, soft drinks, cookies, cakes, white flour and fried and packaged foods, she advises. Add these to your diet instead:
6 foods that ward off aging (Belleville News-Democrat)
10/06/2008
BAILOUT MUST GO HAND IN HAND WITH REFORM (Georgie Anne Geyer via Yahoo! News)
QUEBEC -- Winter has come early in this glorious French-Canadian city, which sits like a genteelly aging queen above the St. Lawrence River, fed by the roiling waters of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The winds were blowing December, instead of October, and hail was in the frigid air.
BAILOUT MUST GO HAND IN HAND WITH REFORM (Georgie Anne Geyer via Yahoo! News)
10/06/2008
Local County Asks Feds To Help Replace Aging, Antiquated Bridges (KWTX-TV Waco)
A Central Texas county is looking to the federal government for help in replacing aging and antiquated bridges.
Local County Asks Feds To Help Replace Aging, Antiquated Bridges (KWTX-TV Waco)
10/06/2008
6 foods that ward off aging (Belleville News-Democrat)
There might not be a fountain of youth, but there might be a pantry of youth. People who stock up on the right foods can turn back the clock, according to Karen Ansel, a dietitian and author of "The Anti-Aging Diet" story in last month's Family Circle. Ditch red meat, full-fat dairy, soft drinks, cookies, cakes, white flour and fried and packaged foods, she advises. Add these to your diet instead:
6 foods that ward off aging (Belleville News-Democrat)
10/06/2008
Local County Asks Feds To Help Replace Aging, Antiquated Bridges (KWTX-TV Waco)
A Central Texas county is looking to the federal government for help in replacing aging and antiquated bridges.
Local County Asks Feds To Help Replace Aging, Antiquated Bridges (KWTX-TV Waco)
10/06/2008
6 foods that ward off aging (Belleville News-Democrat)
There might not be a fountain of youth, but there might be a pantry of youth. People who stock up on the right foods can turn back the clock, according to Karen Ansel, a dietitian and author of "The Anti-Aging Diet" story in last month's Family Circle. Ditch red meat, full-fat dairy, soft drinks, cookies, cakes, white flour and fried and packaged foods, she advises. Add these to your diet instead:
6 foods that ward off aging (Belleville News-Democrat)
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