Conventional wisdom suggests that stress accelerates aging -- but is it really true? Evolutionary studies of aging use short-lived animals under laboratory conditions -- constant temperature and humidity, no parasites, superabundant food. Researchers identified individual stilt-legged flies in their harsh natural environments while simultaneously monitoring their cousins in the lab. In males, ...
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Evolutionary studies of aging typically utilize small, short-lived animals (insects, worms, mice) under benign conditions - constant temperature and humidity, no parasites, superabundant food - in the laboratory. Oddly enough, very little is known about aging in such animals in their harsh, stressful natural environments. Could it be that these laboratory "guinea pigs" actually age much more ...
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( University of Chicago Press Journals ) Evolutionary studies of aging use short-lived animals under laboratory conditions -- constant temperature and humidity, no parasites, superabundant food. Researchers identified individual stilt-legged flies in their harsh natural environments while simultaneously monitoring their cousins in the lab. In males, the rate of aging was as least two times ...
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The Vital Aging Committee is an organized group of older adults who are concerned about aging in their community. This group is sponsored by the Minnesota Rural Health Association, the Land of the Dancing Sky Area Agency on Aging, and the University of Minnesota.
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Secretary of Aging Nora Dowd Eisenhower today urged Pennsylvanians to salute grandparents during National Grandparents Day, Sept. 7, for providing care, love and the link to family history.
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AT&T Inc. and the Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on Aging announced today the launch of a new public service initiative designed to benefit Philadelphia's mature adult population.
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Japan's rapidly aging society is forecast to lead to shortfalls in young people, workers and tax revenues. Add to that another shortage: crematoriums. The number of people dying annually in Japan rose to 1.1 million in 2007, with nearly all of them cremated, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. Read the full story
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