Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people all of the United States and the World. It is a disease that effects how the body handles blood sugar. Affecting 1 out of 5 seniors over 75, diabetes is becoming increasingly common among seniors.
A recent study completed at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center seems to indicates that vitamin K can actually help slow insulin resistance among males over the age of sixty.
There are many age old adages that ring very true. One popular one is that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. A new report from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Center, seems to confirm that regularly caring for your teeth might do more than just prevent bad breath.
This new study, which was announced in the September edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that seniors who participated in regular oral hygiene were less likely to contract pneumonia.
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Aging on November 1st, 2008
Today, people all over the World are living longer and better lives. Where those living in the nineteen-hundreds had a life expectancy of less than fifty years, today the average life expectancy is nearly eighty. As the average life expectancy has increased, so has what people consider to be elderly.
