02185nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10422309 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100525s2010 enka sb 001 0 eng d 2010455062 9781848165076 (pbk.) 1848165072 (pbk.) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)670430629 QP85 .W38 2010eb 612.68 22 Weale, R. A. (Robert Alexander) Youth prolonged [electronic resource] : old age postponed / Robert Weale. Old age postponed London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co., c2010. xii, 134 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index. What'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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Longevity. Aging Prevention. Health. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10422309 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 142020 142020