Sentences with phrase «to lengthen one's life»

The gene, described in next month's issue of Nature Biotechnology, could help lengthen the life of other flowers, and perhaps prolong the shelf life of vegetables.

Older Americans are facing larger amounts of debt, in part because of lengthened life spans.

With over 10,000 people turning 65 each day1, and a retirement environment made increasingly challenging by lengthening life expectancies, rising expenses and economic concerns, the program provides advisors with much sought after insights on the process of turning their clients» savings into income.

A person can lengthen their life by honoring their parents.

Exercise also lengthens our lives in other ways, too, from preventing the common cold to lowering our risk of more serious, chronic diseases, like:

Keeping dirt from getting ground into the carpets also lengthens the life and keeps them looking new.

«Our goal is not necessarily lengthening life, but extending a healthier, high performing, more productive lifespan.»

The survival advantage, she adds, persisted after adjustment for baseline cognition — meaning that it was the benefits of reading, rather than the readers» previous cognitive capacity, that helped lengthen life spans.

But it's unclear if the approach can really lengthen the lives of long - lived animals like us.

Another reason to indulge: Research suggests that eating peanut butter as part of a healthy diet could benefit your heart and maybe even lengthen your life.

Caloric restriction is a proven method for lengthening life span of a wide variety of organisms, but scientists still don't know exactly how it works.

More: High vitamin D level lengthens life expectancy of elderly Dutch 21.11.2009 Vitamin D delays aging at genetic level 28.12.2008 Vitamin D extends your life expectancy 22.12.2008

Efforts to improve the quality of life of the elderly will almost certainly continue lengthening life as an unintended by - product (the main increases in longevity for those beyond 65 have been an offshoot of higher socioeconomic standards of living and disability - oriented technologies).

There have been many cases in the courts (e.g., improvements in telephones, tires, fluorescent lamps, flashlight bulbs) in which changes that would have greatly lengthened the life or quality of an article were withheld to promote replacement sales.11 Often patents have been taken out on superior inventions but not used, so that the improvements were completely suppressed and an outmoded product continued.

Research led by scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute showed the drug and a potentiating agent lengthened the lives of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, all of whom had exhausted available standard treatments.

Carbon nanotubestiny tubular structures composed of a single layer of carbon atomscould lengthen the life of batteries, according to new research.

Hydrogen sulfide offers clue to how reducing calories lengthens lives.

And that's why the U.S. Department of Energy, the NRC and industry are currently assessing whether the first - generation plants could operate another 20 years — thereby lengthening the life span of a given reactor to 80 years.

Nobel Prize winning bacteriologist Dr Ilya Metchnikoff (1845 - 1916) asserted that probiotics found in yoghurt could in fact lengthen life span.

Healthy lifestyle habits can absolutely lengthen your life, combat aging, and reduce disease risk.

However, paw - rents who do sterilise their furkids argue that this routine surgery lengthens the life of their pet and minimises the risk of cancers associated with the reproductive system.

The goal of Hill's prescription diet for canine cancer is to provide good nutrition and perhaps lengthen the life of the patient.

i am thinking to have him euthanized instead but my heart melts with this lovely boy... my vet told me its a hereditary situation of my dog... so is it a nice decision to let him go as there is no other way to lengthen his life with his situation now?

Killing enemies will grant you experience points, which will raise your level and in turn lengthen your life meter.

«A lot of times if we can find diseases early, we can really lengthen life expectancy and improve quality of life by addressing the issue early.»

In mice, for example, the immunosuppressant can lengthen lives by up to 25 percent.

Our goal is not necessarily lengthening life, but extending a healthier, high performing, more productive life span.»

But as researchers delve into the mechanism behind caloric restriction, some are beginning to question whether cutting calories alone can really lengthen life span.

Research shows that altruism and compassion also make us happier and healthier, and can even lengthen our lives.

Remember, Americans are living longer than ever, which means retirement nest eggs need to account for lengthening life expectancies.

Parrish and researchers at her company decided it was time to see if stretching telomeres in people could also lengthen life.

In addition, single genes in lab animals can dramatically lengthen life - span (Science, 6 April, p. 41).

In this sequel, snakes in a Borneo jungle grow to an immense size because they feed on the Blood Orchid which lengthens their lives.

Help to Live Longer: Animals can even help lengthen life, and they certainly add to the quality of that life.

In the first attempt to reverse aging by reprogramming the genome, they have rejuvenated the organs of mice and lengthened their life spans by 30 percent.

The mitochondria are clearly very important in any consideration of aging, given that there are so very many ways to manipulate them to either shorten or lengthen life in laboratory animals.

FINALLY, a contender for the elusive fountain of youth: an enzyme found in humans appears to lengthen the life of mice.

These conclusions do not mean that suddenly putting all five factors into practice will lengthen your life by a decade.

I know from studies that it appears to lengthen life spans.

Technological progress has lengthened lives and made each of us in many ways more secure, but it has also detached us from others in ways that have made us more obsessively security conscious.

Now he begins to explore the far universe, lengthen his life span, discover unlimited sources of energies in the atom, and crack the genetic code.

So also have better medicine and hygiene, lengthening life spans far beyond the child - bearing age, thereby diminished the male advantage or female disadvantage.

Someday, science may show that particular prebiotic, probiotic, and synbiotic ingredients help prevent certain age - related disorders and lengthen lives.

Instead I cut them into 8 × 8 squares (serging the edges will lengthen the life of your new hankie).

After all, it costs a lot to keep up with the ever - lengthening life span of people.

Miner said the data also allows the city to better plan street repairs in the future, adding that if these strategies can lengthen the life of a street, it ultimately saves taxpayers money.