Youth prolonged : old age postponed / / Robert Weale.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 134 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- What's the problem?
- Language as a barrier: "I can't hear you"
- Dress and appearance: disguising the years; failure?
- Digging up the past; or, Where do we come from?: Were our ancestors healthier than we are?
- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking
- Guessing by experts
- More about the skin, posture and bones
- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy
- The eyes have it
- Thought for food
- Why do we age? Is it a matter of biological economics
- Elements
- Some age-related diseases: risk factors - Alzheimer's disease, bones, cancers, heart, Parkinson's, stroke
- The end of ageing
- What can we do about all this?
- Old age
- Biomarkers
- The menopause
- Age in the distant past
- How does human ageing fit into the animal scheme?
- From end to start.