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aging

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adj. growing old [syn: ageing , senescent ] n. the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age [syn: ageing , senescence ] acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time [syn: ripening , ageing ]

Usage examples of aging.

Every American, Asian, and European has a 40 percent chance of dying of heart disease, and a 50 percent chance that his or her quality of life will be damaged by arterial aging disease.

But when you realize that arterial aging affects a lot more than the arteries going to your heart, the importance of arterial health becomes clearer.

But too much of it can cause aging of the immune system, perhaps by inactivating the cells that defend you.

No food element has been more closely linked to arterial aging than these kinds of fats, found mostly in meats, full-fat dairy products, baked goods, fried fast foods, and palm and coconut oils.

Not getting enough sleep may be one of the reasons you can get addicted to many of those simple carbohydrates and sugars, as well as the aging fats that are impostors to real food.

Keeping your mind active keeps arterial aging, immune aging, and even accidents in check, and has a RealAge benefit of making you 1.

Taking 800 micrograms of folate a day in supplements, or 1,400 micrograms through your diet, can reduce homocysteine levels dramatically, essentially removing any excess homocysteine from your bloodstream and stopping its aging effects.

Those flavonoids act as an antioxidant, which helps reduce aging of the arteries and the immune system.

To understand what the aging process does to your bones, think about what termites do to a house.

And somehow it decreases the aging of your heart, arteries, and immune systems.

While asthma is not a disease that seems primarily associated with aging, its implications for aging are important.

High blood pressure magnifies the aging and symptoms associated with diabetes, causes kidney failure and many other hormone-related conditions, and be triggered by thyroid, adrenal, or kidney problems.

These have been shown to help increase insulin receptivity, which can help lower the risk of aging from type 2 diabetes.

But all the recent data shows that ginkgo offers no better protection from the effects of aging than a placebo.

Rheumatoid and some other forms of arthritis are not diseases associated with aging, but rather autoimmune disorders, in which antibodies attack your cartilage, which is what triggers that inflammation and joint pain.