Essays on Longevity
The expected lifetime is gradually increasing worldwide. For healthy ageing there are variety of options which will be used including healthy dietary and exercise habits. to reduce or prevent obesity certain sorts of diet could also be used which will also reduce the risk of, e.g., cardiovascular disease (CVD). Exercise reduces the risk of diseases...
Ageing is defined as the progressive loss of function accompanied by decreasing fertility and increasing mortality with advancing age (Kirkwood, et al., 2000). A gene, as described by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (2019) is a unit of hereditary information and thus, is continuous; passed down from generation to generation. There have been various discussions...
Gender plays an enormous role in the way males and females perceive their illness and symptoms. Women tend to have more symptoms than men and have been shown to outlive men by an average of three years (Ogden, 2017). There are many factors that can contribute to this. From a biological standpoint, females, in general,...