Again, Exercise is Good for Alzheimer Patients

REUTERS HEALTH reports that an organized exercise designed to increase strength, flexibility, mobility and coordination may improve overall physical function among nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease, researchers report.
Alzheimer's disease patients who have physically deteriorated are less able to perform activities of daily life, which, in turn, affects their quality of life. Despite the well-known physical benefits obtained from exercise, Professor Alejandro Lucia and colleagues in Universidad Europea De Madrid found comparatively little research has focused on exercise training among patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Lucia's team reports the exercise group had significant improvements in measures of upper and lower body strength and flexibility; agility and balance; walking abilities; and endurance. Exercise participants also showed greater ability to independently perform activities of daily living such as rising from a chair, transferring from bed to chair, bathing, or dressing.
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Running run us away from ageing

Elderly joggers were half as likely to die prematurely from conditions like cancer than non-runners.
They also enjoyed a healthier life with fewer disabilities, the Stanford University Medical Center team found.
Experts said the findings in Archives of Internal Medicine reinforced the importance that older people exercise regularly.
The find out in 50 years old research object are:
1. Mortality is half than those who are not jogger
2. Slow the disability by 16 years
3. The gap become wider in 60 years old seniors

Lead author Professor James Fries, emeritus professor of medicine at Stanford, said:
"The health benefits of exercise are greater than we thought."

The article is here from BBC

Checklist for Happy 50 years people

U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the AARP have designed two new checklists to help people over the age of 50 learn what they can do to stay healthy have been released by the. They provide all the information that women and men over 50 need to monitor and maintain their health. The two checklists are reprinted below, but originals can be obtained from the AHQR website, under the headings Tools and Resources, Health Care Consumers.
The list includes:

Be tobacco free. Join the community of stop smoking people.
Be physically active. Exercise keeps you away from alzheimer.
Eat a healthy diet. It doesn't always mean no fats. See the healthy fat tips
Drink only in moderation.
Aspirin to prevent stroke
etc.

Free the Free Radical, for Better Life

This may be good to encourage us avoiding smoking and unhealthy food, as well as consuming good and nutritious food. Longer live can be achieve by keeping our body healthy and maintaining ourselves happy. Staying away from free radical has been proved as an important element to gain longer live.
X"People used to only focus on specific age-related diseases, because it was believed that the aging process itself could not be affected," Rabinovitch explained. "What we're realizing now is that by intervening in the underlying aging process, we may be able to produce very significant increases in 'healthspan,' or healthy lifespan."

The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging. In addition to other researchers from the UW School of Medicine, the project also included researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio.

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Nex Tips: Clean Living

To have longer happily life, the research shows that clean living 'slows cell ageing'. It of course give impat to enlonger our life. The report is from news.bbc.co.uk.

Healthy eating may boost telomerase
Taking more exercise and eating the right foods may help increase levels of an enzyme vital for guarding against age-related cell damage, work suggests.
Among 24 men asked to adopt healthy lifestyle changes for a US study in The Lancet Oncology, levels of telomerase increased by 29% on average.
Telomerase repairs and lengthens telomeres, which cap and protect the ends of chromosomes housing DNA.
As people age, telomeres shorten and cells become more susceptible to dying.
It is the damage and death of cells that causes ageing and disease in people.
Several factors such as smoking, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are associated with shorter-than-average telomeres.
This might be a powerful motivator for many people to beneficially change their diet and lifestyle
The study authors
Professor Dean Ornish, from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in California, and his team wanted to find out if improvements in diet and lifestyle might have the opposite effect.
They asked 30 men, all with low-risk prostate cancers, to take part in a three-month trial of comprehensive lifestyle changes.
These consisted of a diet high in fruit and vegetables, supplements of vitamins and fish oils, an exercise regimen and classes in stress management, relaxation techniques and breathing exercises.
Telomerase activity was measured at the beginning of the trial and again at the end.
Among the 24 men who had sufficient data for analysis, blood levels of telomerase increased by 29% on average.
Increases in telomerase activity were linked with decreases in "bad" LDL cholesterol and decreases in one measure of stress - intrusive thoughts.
The researchers say it is too early to tell if the boost in telomerase levels will translate to a change in telomere length.
But there is evidence to suggest that telomere shortness and low telomerase activity might be important risk factors for cancer and cardiovascular disease.
"This might be a powerful motivator for many people to beneficially change their diet and lifestyle," they told The Lancet Oncology.
Professor Tim Spector, from King's College London, who has been researching ageing and telomeres, said: "This work builds on what we already know.
"Lifestyle can affect your telomeres. It would be interesting to find out whether it is diet, stress or both that is important."

The Reason Why People Can Live Until 150 Years

Steven Austad, of the University Of Texas Health Science Center, told BBC World Service's Discovery programme that life span for a human being may be much longer than most people have considered possible.

And he said that he was virtually certain some children alive now would live to the year 2150.

"The evolutionary picture of the human being is quite an interesting one, because what we've managed to do is create an environment for ourselves that is much safer than anything we've lived in before," he explaianed.

"So even in the absence of medical advances, with just evolutionary change, in the foreseeable future one would expect humans to age at a slower and slower and slower rate."

Life expectancy

In the industrialised world, more and more people are living even into their 90s and 100s - and there is no sign yet of the trend levelling off.

It is this that is causing, for example, fears of pension crises in many Western countries.

But it is also evident than in some pre-industrial societies around the globe today, there are people who are surviving into their 70s and 80s, despite a lack of, for example, readily available medicines.


Wasps that work together live a lot longer than solitary species
Dr Austad's prediction relates in part to research designed to understand how long human beings would actually live for if left in the natural world.

Jim Carey, a biodemographer from the University of California at Davis, analysed the relative body and brain sizes of a range of mammals and found that on our own, it would be likely we would die at between 30 and 40 years old.

The fact that we do not is down to two factors: our brain size and our sociality - the ability to specialise and act together.

Dr Carey explained that the brain, being the instrument of social behaviour, is the key.

"We would estimate that humans would live for 30-40 years just based on size," he said.

"But sociality - and more specifically brain size - comes into this, and brain size and sociality are also related.

"So when you factor in the brain size on this, then you get an estimate of 70-90 years for the human life span."

Winning bet

Dr Carey explained that in the natural world, it has been observed that solitary wasps have a life span of 10 days to two weeks - but advanced, social wasps can live for two to three years.

In other advanced social groups of insects, such as termites and ants, the Queens can live for two or three decades.


Evidence that of our ancestors lived beyond 40 is scarce
"Once you have helpers, plus a nest, the mortality conditions and risks are a bit different," he added.

"The nest provides protection, but also with helpers, you evolve defensive behaviour. You start specialising so that the mother can be reproductive."

Similarly, lions, which live in social groups, live longer than tigers, which are essentially solitary.

And there is very little evidence of our nomadic human ancestors living into their 40s or 50s.

"We are left with the idea of explaining why we humans live much longer than we should for our body size," Dr Austad said.

"One reasonable guess about why that may be true is that we live in these complex groups that provide us some protection that we wouldn't have if we were out there on our own."

Meanwhile, he added that he was so certain that someone alive today will still be alive in 2150, he had placed a bet on it with a friend.

"It's a bet that I feel I'm so overwhelmingly likely to win, I feel like I've stolen the money from him."

Forbes 10 ways to live longer

I find something written in this subject. One by one, we can elaborate it. Yeah, being rich is very cool reason to live rich. Hahaha ... It's not enough one article to comment all points, isn't it. So I get ten subject for my next article.

Forbes 10 ways to live longer

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1. Don't oversleep
2. Be optimistic
3. Have more sex
4. Get a pet
5. Get a VAP
6. Be rich
7. Stop smoking
8. Chill out
9. Eat your antioxidants
10. Marry well

Long Life with diabetes

Do you want a long life with diabetes. Should be careful. But it's not uncommon.