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.
Contact: Justin Reedy
jreedy@u.washington.edu
206-685-0382
University of Washington
http://www.uwnews.org
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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