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12/16/07
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Message To The Elderly: It's Never Too Late To Prevent Illness
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2007) — A new study by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientist has an important message for the elderly: It's not too late to improve your health through diet and exercise, even if you've had an unhealthy lifestyle in the past.
---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- See also: Health & Medicine Diet and Weight Loss Healthy Aging Fitness Mind & Brain Dieting and Weight Control Nutrition Research Mental Health Reference General fitness training Detox diet Coronary heart disease Hypertension The report surveyed scientific literature and found that adults, 65 and older, can have significant health improvements with simple and realistic lifestyle changes. It found that risk can be reduced for many diseases—including obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. "I think this is an extremely important and positive message," says the paper's le Read the Complete Article Similar content: Hip Protectors Won't Prevent Fractures in Elderly, in Arthritis How to Handle a Chronic Illness at Work, in Epilepsy Rheumatoid Illness, Smoking Can Harm Heart's Aorta, in Arthritis Health Tip: Sleep Disturbances Among the Elderly, in Arthritis Certain ACE Inhibitors Cut Elderly Dementia Risk, in Alzheimers |
