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Article: Slowing down may be inevitable, but good health need not be affected.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1990
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Slowing Down May Be Inevitable, But Good Health Need Not Be Affected
For many who have taken little time to think of the body that serves then twenty-four hours a day, the realization that they are aging arrives with a suddenness that can be unnerving. The shock is usually precipitated by illness or loss of vitality. But aging and disease are not synonymous.
Age does bring a diminished capacity to metabolize and excrete drug compounds, for example. The decline is gradual for healthy people, the less dedicated may experience harbingers of things-to-come much faster and earlier. People differ in the rate at which they age physically.
The decline ...