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Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging
Longevity is a blessing as long as good health is not lost. However, the tendency to have a decline on normal physiological activities is inevitable because of the natural processes of degeneration at all levels: molecular, cellular and organic. Hence, the elderly people frequently suffer from cardi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21614158 |
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author | Leung, Ping-Chung |
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description | Longevity is a blessing as long as good health is not lost. However, the tendency to have a decline on normal physiological activities is inevitable because of the natural processes of degeneration at all levels: molecular, cellular and organic. Hence, the elderly people frequently suffer from cardiovascular problems and skeletal deteriorations that gradually develop to disabilities. Awareness of factors leading to unhealthy aging has led to the formation of different professional groups that aim at the maintenance of health of aging community. The approach tends to be target orientated for the European and US groups, aiming at hormonal replacements and detoxification. In contrast, the oriental groups have been keeping their traditional belief of prevention and internal balance, using nutritional arrangements and non-strenuous exercise as means of maintaining health. |
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spelling | pubmed-30460172011-05-25 Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging Leung, Ping-Chung Integr Med Insights Review Longevity is a blessing as long as good health is not lost. However, the tendency to have a decline on normal physiological activities is inevitable because of the natural processes of degeneration at all levels: molecular, cellular and organic. Hence, the elderly people frequently suffer from cardiovascular problems and skeletal deteriorations that gradually develop to disabilities. Awareness of factors leading to unhealthy aging has led to the formation of different professional groups that aim at the maintenance of health of aging community. The approach tends to be target orientated for the European and US groups, aiming at hormonal replacements and detoxification. In contrast, the oriental groups have been keeping their traditional belief of prevention and internal balance, using nutritional arrangements and non-strenuous exercise as means of maintaining health. Libertas Academica 2008-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3046017/ /pubmed/21614158 Text en © 2008 The authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Leung, Ping-Chung Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging |
title | Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging |
title_full | Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging |
title_fullStr | Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging |
title_full_unstemmed | Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging |
title_short | Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging |
title_sort | efforts to achieve healthy aging |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21614158 |
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