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Cataracts. “This sight-stealing disease is the leading cause of blindness and visual impairment in the world,” James W. Anderson, M.D., and Maury M. Breecher, Ph.D., M.P.H., remind us in their new book, Dr. Anderson’s Antioxidant, Antiaging Health Program (1996).
An estimated 46 percent of all people aged 75 to 85 have cataracts, and, as a result, […]

Human growth hormone may be losing its allure as an antiaging drug.
In 1990, a team of researchers reported that a synthetic version of the hormone reversed some age-associated changes in body composition (SN: 7/14/90, p. 23). As part of the normal aging process, fat replaces lean body mass, including muscle. The researchers theorized that as […]