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March
14, 2007:
How To Enjoy Getting Older II
Interview
with Sherwin Nuland, M.D., author of The
Art of Aging
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Mike
Carruthers:
Part
of the fear of getting older is the idea of not being self-sufficient
and perhaps even ending up in a nursing home, however…
Sherwin Nuland, M.D.:
The vast majority of people in nursing and rest homes
are there not because of any disease but because of simple physical
frailty. And in almost all cases they don't have to be there.
Dr. Sherwin
Nuland, author of the book The
Art of Aging, says research shows that old, frail people
who are then put on a supervised strength-training program can
double their strength in six weeks.
This experiment
- it has been done so many times and reported in the literature
so many times, results are consistent. You take such people
and give them this supervised exercise and low and behold, they
not only get up and walk but if they do fall, they can control
their fall - so they're much less likely to injure themselves.
And people like this can live alone and look forward to an increasingly
active life.
The science
is clear, says Dr. Nuland, that getting older doesn't mean what
it used to mean, if you make the effort to take care of yourself.
If you think
carefully about maintaining your body, if you try to be emotionally
and intellectually creative, if you maintain relationships of
caring with other people - you will number one, have a much
better old age and number two, probably live longer.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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