Ageless body - includes related articles
It’s often said that age just I stated of mind. Sadie Delany, the 103-year-old coauthor of Having The Delany Sister’ First 100 Years, gives that adage an amen. “Truth is,” she says of herself and he sister, “we both forget we’re old. This happens all the time.”
You may also be convinced that your age is a “mind thing” until you look in the mirror and see you first gray hair waving hello or take a hard look at your body and notice that several key areas seem heading south. These changes are a signal that the years are passing by.
Though you can’t stop growing order, you can control how old you look and feel. Experts who study science of aging emphasize that age has more to do with how rather than how long you’ve been living. “Many of the physiological changes we have to accept as natural aging are actually caused by disease and disability” says Cheryl Woodson, M.D., a physician and academic geriatrician at Northwestern University. “It’s not about growing old, but about not taking care of yourself.”
There are measures you can take to stave off or ease age-related changes in your hair, skin, body size and shape. To learn how to look and feel as if your body is ageless, you must first understand and anticipate the inevitable changes that come with the passing of years. And then you must take steps to turn back the clock or at least slow it down