TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weale,R.A.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Youth prolonged: old age postponed 
AV  - QP85 .W38 2010eb
U1  - 612.68 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, Hackensack, NJ
PB  - Imperial College Press, Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co.
KW  - Longevity
KW  - Aging
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Health
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10422309
ER  -