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What Improves With Age

Thursday, January 10, 2013
Our memories may deteriorate as we get older, but our HEARTS become wiser.

A hundred years ago, life was harder, so people tended to erect a hard crust around their emotions. Children died young, which led to the emotionally cold and distant father--very common in...
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Old Sinners Picked the Right Parents

Monday, October 17, 2011
People may be getting sick and dying at a younger age than they used to, although some people seem to have found the legendary Fountain of Youth. But people who live...
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How Long Can We Live?

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Adam Tanner writes that scientists say we may eventually live to be hundreds of years old. "I think we are knocking at the door of immortality," says Michael Zey. "?What was science fiction a decade ago is no longer science fiction." But Dr. Geoffrey West isn't so sure, because we're bound to the Rule of Four. He says, "Four is the magic number...

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Elixir of Youth Part II: Spaghetti Sauce?

Friday, March 8, 2002
Men who eat tomato products two or more times a week can significantly reduce their chances of contracting prostate cancer, according to Dr. Edward Giovannucci of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health.

From 1986 to 1998, the researchers analyzed the food choices and prostate cancer histories of more...
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Elixir of Youth

Thursday, March 7, 2002

Bruce Ames, of the University of California fed elderly rats acetyl-L-carintine and the anti-oxidant alpha-lipoic acid for a month. Both chemicals are normally found in mammal cells, and both are sold in health food stores. Then he tested the animals for memory and stamina. ?With these two supplements together, these old rats got up and did the...

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