Healthy Ageing
Maturing in age need not be synomymous with diminishing health. Here are a few articles which will help you enjoy your senior years full of health and vitality.
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Food for Thought: An old view to a young concern
Chronic diseases such as atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, dementia, obesity and cancer have a long latency onset and may be termed "diseases of ageing" due to their increased prevalence in the ageing population. These "diseases of ageing" are often assumed to be the inevitable consequence of a physiological decline with age, but we should ask the question: is this assumption deterministic? Furthermore if we take better care of ourselves can we impact our disease burden and live healthy lives well into old age?
Chronic diseases such as atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, dementia, obesity and cancer have a long latency onset and may be termed "diseases of ageing" due to their increased prevalence in the ageing population. These "diseases of ageing" are often assumed to be the inevitable consequence of a physiological decline with age, but we should ask the question: is this assumption deterministic? Furthermore if we take better care of ourselves can we impact our disease burden and live healthy lives well into old age?
While the modern pharmacological approach to disease management has a valuable place in health care it is arguably ill suited to the management of chronic disease. This is because: (1) chronic disease requires long term management and drugs are not without unwanted side effects, and (2) the best management approach is lifestyle modification.
Chronic disease processes start largely as a result of poor dietary practices. Most importantly, these processes are preventable and can be changed along with dietary habits. There is now a large body of scientific evidence demonstrating very clearly that simple dietary changes have the power to prevent, slow or even reverse the major chronic diseases.
Perhaps the greatest perceivable threat to human longevity is a diet related disease unique to the modern world, a disease of over-consumption is obesity. On 17 March 2005 a harrowing report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The report, of which the lead author was Dr Olshansky, an acclaimed expert on human longevity, stated that "the steady rise in life expectancy during the past two centuries may soon come to an end." The report pointed out that for the first time in a thousand years our life expectancy, rather than steadily increasing, may soon witness a sharp decline. The reason is the dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity. Obesity has been shown to have a substantial negative effect on longevity, reducing the length of life of people who are severely obese by an estimated 5 to 20 years.
Redirecting the focus to "healthy ageing" through dietary weight maintenance is a rational, safe and relevant focus for optimising quality of life.
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Article care of research carried out by B. Brown, ND.