Science Careers got a peek into the professional lives of scientists
studying healthy aging from the perspectives of genetics, sociology and psychology, engineering, and neurology.
Not exact matches
So let me say this once again: The
study proves that
healthier people, because they live longer and need increasingly expensive
age - related health care longer, have higher lifetime health care costs.
Yoga + Extra Protein for
Healthy Aging: A research study conducted by one of the presenters showed that muscle mass may be improved and maintained during the aging process with the combination of yoga and increased protein in
Aging: A research
study conducted by one of the presenters showed that muscle mass may be improved and maintained during the
aging process with the combination of yoga and increased protein in
aging process with the combination of yoga and increased protein intake!
Clinical
studies indicate that moderate coffee consumption is benign or mildly beneficial in
healthy adults, with continuing research on whether long - term consumption inhibits cognitive decline during
aging or lowers the risk of some forms of cancer.
Clinical
studies indicate that moderate Kona consumption is benign or mildly beneficial in
healthy adults, with continuing research on whether long - term consumption inhibits cognitive decline during
aging or lowers the risk of some forms of cancer.
This is supported by the results of a 2013 Mintel
study that revealed 23 % of adults had ordered more,
healthier fast food menu items in 2013 compared to 2012, with younger adults
aged 18 - 34 having the greater tendency to do so.
Clinical
studies indicate that moderate coffee consumption is beneficial in
healthy adults, with continuing research on whether long - term consumption inhibits cognitive decline during
aging or lowers the risk of some forms of cancer.
Five
healthy nonsmokers (2 men and 3 women;
age: 41 — 70 y; BMI: 22 — 29) were recruited as
study volunteers.
This, combined with his decision to pursue the
study of yoga in India at an early
age, serve as the backbone to the international - influenced vegetarian cuisine that put Inn Season Café in Royal Oak, Mich., on the map as one of the
healthiest restaurants in America, according to Health.com.
The
study featured randomly picked 24
healthy, college -
aged participants who each had a minimum of one year of strength training experience.
For the
study, Dr. Jaeger and his co-author, Dr. Jacob Wilson (University of Tampa, Department of Health Sciences and Human Performance), surveyed 24
healthy, college -
aged, resistance - trained participants.
Clinical
studies indicate that moderate Kona consumption is benign or mildly beneficial in
healthy adults, with continuing online research on whether long - term consumption inhibits cognitive decline during
aging or lowers the risk of some forms of cancer.
The children,
ages 9 to 16, also suffered significant dehydration despite an overwhelming display of knowledge and positive attitudes about
healthy hydration habits, said Douglas Casa, a certified athletic trainer, lead researcher in the
studies, and the Director of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut.
In 1997 a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
studied 482
healthy toddlers between 18 and 30 months of
age to see how long before they are potty trained.
According to
Healthy Child,
studies have found that males who co-slept with their parents between birth and
age five had higher self - esteem and experienced less guilt.
In one
study comparing two groups of preterm infants, researchers found that children who'd received skin - to - skin contact in the first weeks postpartum had developed, by
age 10, more
healthy stress response systems, improved sleep patterns, and better cognitive control (Feldman et al 2014).
«Babies of mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat, scans reveal: Babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat at 2 months of
age compared to babies born to
healthy mothers, says a new
study.»
Michigan State University Extension says that within the academic world, experts are
studying how parents can establish
healthy relationships with their children at an early
age, using the concept of responsive parenting as a foundation for their relationship with their growing child.
Although we focused on premature infants, the majority of infants in this
study were between 32 and 37 weeks» gestational
age and were otherwise
healthy.
The effect of maternal
age and planned place of birth on intrapartum outcomes in
healthy women with straightforward pregnancies: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort
study
Proceeding from a randomly ordered list, the nurse explained the
study and screened mothers for the following eligibility criteria: English - speaking, currently breastfeeding,
aged > 18 years, without history of major breast surgery,
healthy singleton infant, and telephone access for follow - up contact.
The second phase of the
study reports results from 53
healthy, non-obese men and women between
ages 21 and 50 who cut calories by 15 % over 2 years and underwent additional measurements for metabolism and oxidative stress.
The scientists
studied a cohort of 903
healthy adults (mean
age: 74) with no indications of either pre-diabetes or diabetes during clinic visits from 1997 to 1999, and then followed the participants through 2009.
Sandberg's
study of adults with aphasia compared to same -
age healthy adults indicates that issues may extend beyond language portions of the brain and therefore require additional intervention programs to ensure patients» full recovery.
For the
study, the researchers enrolled 10
healthy children
ages 3 to 5 years in a seven - day protocol.
«With longevity and the ability to bear children at an older
age associated with longer telomere length, this
study suggests that a higher maternal
age of successful child bearing may be a marker of
healthy aging,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, NAMS executive director.
Among the 92 school -
age children
aged 9 to 11 in the
study, each snack raised their diet quality by 2.31 points, as measured on the
Healthy Eating Index, 2005 developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In the
study published in
Age, two groups of 22 young (< 35 years of age) and 20 older (50 - 80 years of age) healthy men consumed either a flavanol - containing drink, or a flavanol - free control drink, twice a day for two wee
Age, two groups of 22 young (< 35 years of
age) and 20 older (50 - 80 years of age) healthy men consumed either a flavanol - containing drink, or a flavanol - free control drink, twice a day for two wee
age) and 20 older (50 - 80 years of
age) healthy men consumed either a flavanol - containing drink, or a flavanol - free control drink, twice a day for two wee
age)
healthy men consumed either a flavanol - containing drink, or a flavanol - free control drink, twice a day for two weeks.
In the second
study, published in BJN, the researchers extended their investigations to a larger group (100) of
healthy middle -
aged men and women (35 - 60 years) with low risk of CVD.
The combined results of these
studies demonstrate that flavanols are effective at mitigating
age - related changes in blood vessels, and could thereby reduce the risk of CVD in
healthy individuals.
For the present
study, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess brain response to sensory stimulation in 35 women with fibromyalgia and 25
healthy,
age - matched controls.
In a related
study also published today in PNAS, immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins,
aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in their
healthy twins.
Jenifer Fenton, assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Kari Hortos, associate dean in MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Macomb University Center, led the 18 - month, cross-sectional
study, which followed 126
healthy, white American males ranging from 48 to 65 years of
age.
The
study involved 10 275
healthy children
aged 2 to 14 years who were randomly assigned to receive three injections of the CYD - TDV vaccine (6851) or a placebo (3424) at 0, 6, and 12 months, and followed for up to 2 years.
Researchers from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania
studied more than 2,600 menu items served at full - service restaurant chains operating in Philadelphia and concluded that foods served at full - service restaurant chains are high in calories, saturated fat, and sodium, and that standard definitions are needed for «
healthy choice» tags and for entrees targeted to vulnerable
age groups.
As assistant director of the Institute of
Healthy Aging at University College London, Gems regularly runs experiments on Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm that is often used to study the biology of a
Aging at University College London, Gems regularly runs experiments on Caenorhabditis elegans, a roundworm that is often used to
study the biology of
agingaging.
In cognitively
healthy adults
age 70 and older, Federoff's team measured the levels of 10 lipids found in the blood to identify, with 90 % accuracy, which
study group participants would develop cognitive impairment over a 2 - 3 year period.
«I think this is a step towards making sense out of a lot of data — genetic data, environmental data, epidemiological data — to help us understand factors that contribute to long and
healthy life,» says Winifred Rossi, deputy director of the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology at the National Institute on
Aging, who wasn't involved in the
study.
Studies show that Seventh - Day Adventists, whose church encourages behaviors that promote
healthy aging, have a well - documented average life span of 88 years, approximately eight years longer than the average U.S. citizen.
The authors explored the relationship between the risk of having PC and dietary patterns as part of the MCC - Spain
study, a Spanish case - control
study that involved 733 patients with histologically confirmed PC and 1,229
healthy men with a mean
age of 66 years from seven Spanish regions.
The
study found plain packaging not only reduced overall misperceptions that there are
healthier tobacco brands, but also found that participants under the
age of 35 were 16.5 per cent less likely to view some brands as more prestigious than others.
In the
study, 255 boys and girls between 8 and 12 years of
age, all
healthy, and without any diagnosis of any mental health disorder, were asked to answer a questionnaire about the presence of mild obsessive - compulsive symptoms.
The researchers noted that the cohort of 2,827 participants whose data were analyzed in this
study were generally
healthy, mostly Caucasian (92.2 %), elderly males (average
age 76.4 years), therefore limiting the generalizability of the
study results to other populations.
To find out, the researchers — Holtzman; Ju; co-first author and graduate student Sharon Ooms of Radboud; Jurgen Claassen, MD, PhD, of Radboud; Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, of Stanford; and colleagues —
studied 17
healthy adults
ages 35 to 65 with no sleep problems or cognitive impairments.
1) The Singapore - Longitudinal
Aging Brain
Study (started in 2005) follows a cohort of
healthy adults of Chinese ethnicity
aged 55 years and above.
The naked mole rat, a long - lived rodent, is being
studied for the secrets its biology can reveal about
healthy aging.
The participants in the present
study are from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE - II)-- a larger longitudinal study examining the physical, psychological, and social conditions for healthy a
study are from the Berlin
Aging Study II (BASE - II)-- a larger longitudinal study examining the physical, psychological, and social conditions for healthy a
Aging Study II (BASE - II)-- a larger longitudinal study examining the physical, psychological, and social conditions for healthy a
Study II (BASE - II)-- a larger longitudinal
study examining the physical, psychological, and social conditions for healthy a
study examining the physical, psychological, and social conditions for
healthy agingaging.
An additional comparison of this
study group with adults with anorexia nervosa and a
healthy control group supported greater orbitofrontal cortex and insula volumes in the disorder across this
age group as well.
Adult fruit flies given a cancer drug live 12 % longer than average, according to a UCL - led
study researching
healthy aging.
The
study, which appears today in the journal Neuron, involved 20 young adults (
ages 18 to 31) and 20 cognitively
healthy older adults (
ages 64 to 89).