A lifelong habit of trimming just a few calories from the daily diet can do more than help you stay trim. New research shows calorie reduction may help lessen the effects of aging and help extend your life. The results of the new study is published in the journal Antioxidants and Redox Signaling.

Sexual activity and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) rates are rising among seniors according to new research published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ research shows that 80% of 50 to 90 years olds are sexually active and that the cases of sexually transmitted diseases have more than doubled in this age group over the past 10 years.

It is never too late to start exercising, and any amount of exercise is better than no exercise according to most anti-aging experts, fitness and health experts.

Retirees who transition from full-time work into a temporary or part-time job experience fewer major diseases and live a healthier life than peers who stop working altogether, according to a national study reported in the October issue of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.

The findings were significant even after controlling for people’s physical and mental health before retirement.

Running throughout middle and older ages may be associated with reduced disability in later life as well as a survival advantage, according to Stanford University School of Medicine researchers in a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

People in their 20s don't usually complain about forgetting names, forgetting phone numbers, or having trouble learning something new. But it is in your twenties when memory and mental energy first start to decline, according to a new study.

Facial Aging is More than a Skin Deep Problem

When you think of facial aging, many people think pf fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and sagging skin, but new research on aging finds that the skin isn't the only thing that ages and causes you to look years older.

Facial Bones and Aging

Over time, facial bones can also lose volume and recede, making your face look even older.

And if having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin, and crow's feet, and weren't enough, the jawbone becomes less defined, the brow bone recedes, and the bones of the eye socket gradually widen.  All of these results of aging causes the face to look older and take on a more “tied” and “sad” look also known as facial aging,

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AntiAging Tips

Aging can be a be-atch! Watching wrinkles deveop, hearing bones creak, losing strength and losing energy. But everyone ages differently. Some people age "gracefully",  some look like they were "rode hard and put away wet". So what is the secret to aging "gracefully"?

Study after study is showing that older adults can slow the physical and mental aging process with some simple lifestyle changes, such as daily exercise, eating healthy and a positive attitude (meaning less stress).

While genetics also play a factor, there are things you can do to slow YOUR aging process and be a "younger" you. Healthy aging is also defined as living a longer, healthier life.

Alzheimer and Dementia Prevention

A new study finds that seniors who speak three or more languages may have a lower risk of impaired memory than their peers.

A leading medical authority has criticized the increasing use of anti-aging hormones, saying anti-aging hormones offer little benefit but come with high risk.

New multi purpose contact lenses are just around the corner that will be able to treat presbyopia, a gradual loss of the ability to focus on nearby objects and an array of other vision problems, not just presbyopia.

The next-generation multifocal contact lenses made with silicone hydrogel polymer, a more breathable and safer material than older soft-lens polymers are being pre-market tested by optometrists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Optometry.

The new multifocal contact lenses are manufactured to be multipurpose, meaning they can be used to correct an array of vision problems, not just presbyopia. The new multifocal lenses improve focus on nearby objects that even contact wearers experience.

ontact-lens wearers say freedom from eyeglasses is a great feeling, one they want to keep. Optometrists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Optometry are responding with prescriptions for next-generation multifocal contact lenses.

Bifocal glasses can help aging eyes, but for contacts wearers, presbyopia has been an annoying part of aging.

"There's a huge number of people who don't want to give up contacts due to presbyopia, or don't want to wear reading glasses over their contact lenses," according to Adam Gordon, O.D., M.P.H., an associate professor in the School of Optometry. Gordon directs the Cornea and Contact Lens Clinic at UAB Eye Care, the clinical and retail operation of the School of Optometry.

The new multifocal contact lenses are made with silicone hydrogel polymer, a more breathable and safer material than older soft-lens polymers, according to Gordon. Cutting-edge laser technology is used to manufacture each lens' complex optical designs, which improve focus on nearby objects.

UAB Eye Care doctors are conducting pre-market evaluations of new designs and materials, so patients in the Cornea and Contact Lens Clinic may receive a prescription for the next-generation lenses before they're available to eye doctors nationally.

Spotting Presbyopia

A comprehensive eye exam can spot the early signs of presbyopia. In addition to treating the condition with eyeglass prescriptions, optometrists traditionally have relied on a corrective technique called monovision - that is, prescribing one contact lens for distance vision and another contact lens for reading in the same patient. Monovision is essentially using non-matched lenses to improve sight.

"Before multifocals, monovision worked very well for 50 years or more, but it created compromises in vision that some people could never get used to," Gordon said. "In monovision, the two eyes are always doing something different: one eye is always blurry and the brain has to figure out which eye it should pay the most attention to."

Advantages of the New Multifocal Contact Lens Technology

The new multifocal lenses require fewer brain-sight adjustments and appear to improve vision for a large number of contact wearers. "The new multifocal lenses are a closer simulation of the way natural vision works and the way eyes are designed to focus," Gordon said.

The new multifocal contact lenses are manufactured to be multipurpose, meaning they can be used to correct an array of vision problems, not just presbyopia.

It’s never too early or too late to start working toward the goal of improving brain health and your future quality of life.  The start of a New Year can be a perfect opportunity to consider how to  achieve a long, health and satisfying life.  

Six months of exercise can reverse the decline in physical conditioning associated with aging, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reported in a 30-year follow-up to the 1966 landmark Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study.

Concerned about your aging parents' health? Use this health information guide to determine if your aging parents may need some help. As your parents get older, you may want to make sure they're taking care of themselves and staying healthy.

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that certain types of specializations on nerve cells called “spines” are depleted as a person ages, causing cognitive decline in the part of the brain that mediates the highest levels of learning. These spines receive an important class of synapses that are involved with the process of learning.

Cognitive decline was long seen as an inevitable consequence of aging, but recent years have seen a surge of interest in activities and products touted to forestall this outcome. What is the truth? Is decline inevitable, or is there a possibility of retaining our faculties if we exercise them? And which kinds of exercises and products are effective, and which are merely hype?

According to a new survey many women fear facial aging like their mother, especially when it comes to aging in your lower eyelids. New research presented at the annual meeting of American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Seattle confirm this fear about aging is a real fear to women. 

Exercising, eating enough fruit and vegetables not drinking too much alcohol and not smoking can add up to 14 years to your life, a new Public Library of Science Medicine study suggests.

A new study shows elderly adults who engage in resistance training can reduce the effects of aging.  Not only does exercise make most people feel better and perform physical tasks better, it now appears that exercise - specifically, resistance training -- actually rejuvenates muscle tissue in healthy senior citizens.

The study involved before and after analysis of gene expression profiles in tissue samples taken from 25 healthy older men and women who underwent six months of twice weekly resistance training, compared to a similar analysis of tissue samples taken from younger healthy men and women.

Many people are forever looking for the "fountain of Youth". What most people do not know, is the "fountain of Youth" may well be in their own home. How is that you may be thinking?

These three simple tips about water and hydration can drastically improve your health and appearance:

For good skin and good health there are simple rules to follow. They are not complicated, nor are they hard to implement, but the payoff is HUGE!

The following are some simple nutritional tips to help you properly nourish your skin, and your body and slow down the effects of mother nature and father. time!

Aging is often associated with undesirable events, like wrinkles, tiredness, disease. While everyone ages, some people seem to age more gracefully then others. Could good nutrition be the key to a healthier, longer life?

 People with diets high in vitamins C, D, E and the B vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids are less likely to experience brain shrinkage associated with Alzheimer’s disease than people whose diets are not high in those nutrients, according to a new study published in the December 28, 2011, online issue of Neurology®.