People love their pets. More than 60 percent of U.S. households include pets, and those pet owners pour $41 billion a year into pet care. This may seem like a lot of money. But when you consider the fact that owning a pet could very likely add years to your life, a pet can quickly seem like a wise investment.More… (Health)
A very frustrating issue which time and again raises its head in the courts of law, is about the normal retirement age for employees. For retiring employees this is not a very pleasant argument to enter into after working for a number of years or a lifetime for a company. Neither is it a good way to commence with retirement by leaving the company on a sad note.
I’m getting older. You are too. It’s a fact of life that no matter how young we are now, one day we’re going to start feeling the creaks and groans of age settling in.
Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says.Published in today's online edition of Nature Medicine, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York City also say the older organs function as well as they did when the host animal was younger.The researchers, led by Associate Professor Ana Maria Cuervo, blocked the ageing process in mice livers by stopping the build-up of harmful proteins inside the organ's cells.
Is there a worst way to die?Anna Gosline's recent article in New Scientist, entitled "How Does It Feel To Die?" got our hearts pumping here at HowStuffWorks. Gosline interviewed experts to find out what it's like to drown, fall from a tall building and ride the electric chair, among other terrible ways to die. This got us to thinking: Is there a worst way to die?
Everyone has assumed we age by rust. But how do you explain animals that don't age? Some tortoises lay eggs at the age of 100, there are whales that live to be 200 and clams that make it past 400 years."
How Long Do You Want to Live
I am going to share with you some secrets of long life given to me by old folks all over the world. I have traveled throughout Europe, North America and much of Asia. I have met many healthy but very old people. I have taken notes and have asked as many of them as I could, "How have you lived so long."
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Parents who are busy raising their children during their formative years do not often stop to consider what will happen when their children grow up and move away and how this will change their own lives. But the sad fact is that many elderly parents end up feeling unneeded once their children have grown up and established their own careers and families. What can you do to let your elderly parents know that they are still needed?
