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March
13, 2007:
How To Enjoy Getting Older
Interview
with Sherwin Nuland, M.D., author of The
Art of Aging
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Mike
Carruthers:
No
matter what your age, the thought of getting older has to cross
your mind now and again and you probably dread it. But here's
some good news about getting older…
Sherwin Nuland, M.D.:
It isn't as bad as people anticipate. You see it's the
anticipation; it's the image of what age should be that makes
people conform to the image.
Dr. Sherwin Nuland,
author of the book The
Art of Aging…
We have an image
of what old people should be and the reason we have that image
is that the generation before mine actually slid into old age
and let themselves become decrepit without knowing (because
there was no research to prove it) that it doesn't have to be
that way. They thought of it as an inevitability.
However, Dr.
Nuland says the quality of your aging is almost always a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
It doesn't have
to be the way many people see it. As we get older our genes
and our chromosomes and our heredity become less important.
It's our intellectual and our physical maintenance that become
the most important factors.
So, if you dread
getting older, getting older will likely be dreadful.
It's important
to think of one's self as someone with a future. In other words,
to me aging is only a stage of life - it's a developmental stage
and you've got to think of yourself as still developing.
Tomorrow, some
conclusive research about aging that will likely shock you -
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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