02154nam a2200337 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020002500112020002200137040002100159035002100180050002200201082001500223100003700238245008100275246002200356260011400378300002400492504006400516505086200580533015201442650001501594650002301609650001201632655002901644710001701673856012601690ebr10422309CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||100525s2010    enka    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2010455062  z9781848165076 (pbk.)  z1848165072 (pbk.)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)67043062914aQP85b.W38 2010eb04a612.682221 aWeale, R. A.q(Robert Alexander)10aYouth prolongedh[electronic resource] :bold age postponed /cRobert Weale.30aOld age postponed  aLondon :bImperial College Press ;aHackensack, NJ :bDistributed by World Scientific Publishing Co.,cc2010.  axii, 134 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.0 aWhat's the problem? -- Language as a barrier: "I can't hear you" -- Dress and appearance: disguising the years; failure? -- Digging up the past; or, Where do we come from?: Were our ancestors healthier than we are? -- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking -- Guessing by experts -- More about the skin, posture and bones -- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy -- The eyes have it -- Thought for food -- Why do we age? Is it a matter of biological economics -- Elements -- Some age-related diseases: risk factors - Alzheimer's disease, bones, cancers, heart, Parkinson's, stroke -- The end of ageing -- What can we do about all this? -- Old age -- Biomarkers -- The menopause -- Age in the distant past -- How does human ageing fit into the animal scheme? -- From end to start.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aLongevity. 0aAgingxPrevention. 0aHealth. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10422309zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view