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Youth prolonged : old age postponed /
What exactly is human ageing? Can it be slowed down? These questions have puzzled scientists and laymen alike for generations, and continue to do so today. The author addresses these thought-provoking issues by challenging pre-conceived notions of age-perception, age-acceptance and inter-age relatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.