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What Do We Know About Healthy Aging?
We all want to maintain good health as we get older. Learn what research tells us about how to take care of our physical, mental, and cognitive health as we age.
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Many factors influence healthy aging. Some of these, such as genetics, are not in our control. Others — like exercise, a healthy diet, going to the doctor regularly, and taking care of our mental health — are within our reach. Research supported by NIA and others has identified actions you can take to help manage your health, live as independently as possible, and maintain your quality of life as you age. Read on to learn more about the research and the steps you can take to promote healthy aging.
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Get moving: Exercise and physical activity
Healthy eating: Make smart food choices
Getting a good night’s sleep
Quit smoking
Alcohol and other substances
Go to the doctor regularly
Social isolation and loneliness
Stress
Depression and overall mood
Leisure activities and hobbies
How different factors affect cognitive health
How cognitive training affects health outcomes
Taking care of your physical health
While scientists continue to actively research how to slow or prevent age-related declines in physical health, they’ve already discovered multiple ways to improve the chances of maintaining optimal health later in life. Taking care of your physical health involves staying active, making healthy food choices, getting enough sleep, limiting your alcohol intake, and proactively managing your health care. Small changes in each of these areas can go a long way to support healthy aging.
Get moving: Exercise and physical activity
Whether you love it or hate it, physical activity is a cornerstone of healthy aging. Scientific evidence suggests that people who exercise regularly not only live longer, but also may live better — meaning they enjoy more years of life without pain or disability.
A study of adults 40 and older found that taking 8,000 steps or more per day, compared to only taking 4,000 steps, was associated with a 51% lower risk of death from all causes. You can increase the number of steps you get each day by doing activities that keep your body moving, such as gardening, walking the dog, and taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
Although it has many other benefits, exercise is an essential tool for maintaining a healthy weight. Significant excess weight and obesity increase the risk of death, disability, and many diseases such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. However, thinner is not always healthier either. Being or becoming too thin as an older adult can weaken your immune system, increase the risk of bone fracture, and in some cases may be a symptom of disease. Both obesity and underweight conditions can lead to loss of muscle mass, which may cause a person to feel weak and easily worn out.
As people age, muscle function often declines. Older adults may not have the energy to do everyday activities and can lose their independence. However, exercise can help older adults maintain muscle mass as they age. In a 2019 investigation of data from NIA’s Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, researchers found that moderate to vigorous physical activity is strongly associated with muscle function, regardless of age. This suggests that exercise may be able to prevent age-related decline in muscle function.
In addition to helping older adults live better, maintaining muscle mass can help them live longer. In another study, researchers found that in adults older than 55, muscle mass was a better predictor of longevity than was weight or body mass index (BMI).
What can you do?
Although many studies focus on the effects of physical activity on weight and BMI, research has found that even if you’re not losing weight, exercise can still help you live longer and better. There are many ways to get started. Try being physically active in short spurts throughout the day or setting aside specific times each week to exercise. Many activities, such as brisk walking or yoga, are free or low cost and do not require special equipment. As you become more active, you will start feeling energized and refreshed after exercising instead of exhausted. The key is to find ways to get motivated and get moving.
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Healthy eating: Make smart food choices
Making smart food choices can help protect you from certain health problems as you age and may even help improve brain function. As with exercise, eating well is not just about your weight. With so many different diets out there, choosing what to eat can be confusing. The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide healthy eating recommendations for each stage of life. The Dietary Guidelines suggest an eating pattern with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and lean proteins.
Much of the research shows that the Mediterranean-style eating pattern, which includes fresh produce, whole grains, and healthy fats, but less dairy and more fish than a traditional American diet, may have a positive impact on health. A 2021 study analyzing the eating patterns of more than 21,000 participants found that people closely following the Mediterranean-style pattern had a significantly lower risk of sudden cardiac death.
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After reading through the article, how would you classify the barriers to exercising? Are they legitimate or excuses? Explain your answer. (Site 1)
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The barriers to exercising are excuses used to not workout. Most of them are not legitimate excuses and are just ways to get out of exercising. Some examples of barriers are that you are not motivated, the weather is not right, or I don't have the time.
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Everyone knows that it is important to be fit throughout our lives, yet many people still make unhealthy choices. You are concerned that your parents are living a lifestyle that is putting them at risk for illnesses associated with aging. You know that many of these illnesses can be reduced or even prevented with a healthy lifestyle. Because you care about your parents, you are planning on having a discussion with them to explain the health risks associated with their current lifestyle and to encourage them to embrace a healthy lifestyle. What will you say to them?
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Hey mom and dad,
I have noticed that you guys have been eating at a lot of fast food places and are not exercising like you used to. Excerising is very important if you want to reduce your risk of certain illnesses. If you want to not get illness associated to aging eating healthy and exercising as much as you can can help prevent these illness to harming you guys. I love you.
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After reading through the article, how would you classify the barriers to exercising? Are they legitimate or excuses? Explain your answer. (Site 1)
The barriers to exercising are excuses used to not workout. Most of them are not legitimate excuses and are just ways to get out of exercising. Some examples of barriers are that you are not motivated, the weather is not right, or I don't have the time.
Everyone knows that it is important to be fit throughout our lives, yet many people still make unhealthy choices. You are concerned that your parents are living a lifestyle that is putting them at risk for illnesses associated with aging. You know that many of these illnesses can be reduced or even prevented with a healthy lifestyle. Because you care about your parents, you are planning on having a discussion with them to explain the health risks associated with their current lifestyle and to encourage them to embrace a healthy lifestyle. What will you say to them?
Hey mom and dad,
I have noticed that you guys have been eating at a lot of fast food places and are not exercising like you used to. Excerising is very important if you want to reduce your risk of certain illnesses. If you want to not get illness associated to aging eating healthy and exercising as much as you can can help prevent these illness to harming you guys. I love you.
List the four leading causes of death in the United States. How can a number of these deaths be prevented or greatly reduced?
The four leading causes of death in the us are heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases, and stroke. These illnesses can be prevent with healthier lifestyle choices such as exercising.
List one lifetime activity in which you are interested in participating. Describe at least one factor that may influence your ability to participate in that activity.
I really want to be active in golf. One factor that may influence my ability is what kind of clubs I have. If I have bad clubs that I won't hit as far as I am capable of doing.
Which of the six main motivating factors in lifetime fitness is most important? Justify your response.
I think the most important motivating factors of lifetime fitness is knowledge. This is important because it keeps you from getting injured and informs you on the different activity options.
Grace goes to the doctor. The doctor tells Grace that while her chronological age is 24, her physiological age is 30. What factors could account for this discrepancy?
A person is supposw to have the same if not lower physiological age than their chronological age. This means grace has either had a bad diet, lots of stress, chronic illness etc for her body to be more worn down then it's suppose to.
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Lack of exercise is a major cause of chronic diseases
Chronic diseases are major killers in the modern era. Physical inactivity is a primary cause of most chronic diseases. The initial third of the article considers: activity and prevention definitions; historical evidence showing physical inactivity is detrimental ...
Compr Physiol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Nov 23.
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Compr Physiol. 2012 Apr; 2(2): 1143–1211.
doi: 10.1002/cphy.c110025
PMCID: PMC4241367
NIHMSID: NIHMS603913
PMID: 23798298
Lack of exercise is a major cause of chronic diseases
Frank W. Booth, Ph.D.,1 Christian K. Roberts, Ph.D.,2 and Matthew J. Laye, Ph.D.3
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Abstract
Chronic diseases are major killers in the modern era. Physical inactivity is a primary cause of most chronic diseases. The initial third of the article considers: activity and prevention definitions; historical evidence showing physical inactivity is detrimental to health and normal organ functional capacities; cause vs. treatment; physical activity and inactivity mechanisms differ; gene-environment interaction [including aerobic training adaptations, personalized medicine, and co-twin physical activity]; and specificity of adaptations to type of training. Next, physical activity/exercise is examined as primary prevention against 35 chronic conditions [Accelerated biological aging/premature death, low cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max), sarcopenia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, insulin resistance, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, coronary heart disease, peripheral artery disease, hypertension, stroke, congestive heart failure, endothelial dysfunction, arterial dyslipidemia, hemostasis, deep vein thrombosis, cognitive dysfunction, depression and anxiety, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, balance, bone fracture/falls, rheumatoid arthritis, colon cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, polycystic ovary syndrome, erectile dysfunction, pain, diverticulitis, constipation, and gallbladder diseases]. The article ends with consideration of deterioration of risk factors in longer-term sedentary groups; clinical consequences of inactive childhood/adolescence; and public policy. In summary, the body rapidly maladapts to insufficient physical activity, and if continued, results in substantial decreases in both total and quality years of life. Taken together, conclusive evidence exists that physical inactivity is one important cause of most chronic diseases. In addition, physical activity primarily prevents, or delays, chronic diseases, implying that chronic disease need not be an inevitable outcome during life.
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1. Organization of article
1.1 Entire article
An underappreciated primary cause of most chronic conditions is the lack of sufficient daily physical activity (“physical inactivity”). Overwhelming evidence proves the notion that reductions in daily physical activity are primary causes of chronic diseases/conditions and that physical activity/exercise is rehabilitative treatment (therapy) from the inactivity-caused dysfunctions. The general strategy of presentation divides the article into three major sections: 1) Conceptual information forming the foundation to understand the remaining article; 2) Primary literature supporting physical inactivity as a primary cause to a myriad of chronic conditions/diseases, and 3) additional considerations. The aim of the entire article is to bring better understanding and insight into the observation that a lack of physical activity at ancestral levels initiates 35 pathological and clinical conditions.
1.2 First third of article
Conceptual information is presented in five parts in the first third of the article. 1) Definitions of forms of physical activity, functional capacity, types of fitness, chronic diseases, types of prevention so that the reader understands how the article employs these words; 2) A brief chronology of the three-millennia history that recognizes that physical inactivity reduces functional capacity and health; 3) Cause vs. treatment are discussed to emphasize that physical inactivity is a primary cause of chronic conditions/diseases; 4) Growing evidence that mechanisms by which inactivity causes disease differ from mechanisms by which physical activity is a therapy/treatment to act as a primary preventer of disease; and 5) Gene-environment interactions have varying degrees of gene involvement in the magnitude of change to physical activity.
1.3 Center portion of article
Physical inactivity is a primary cause initiating 35 separate pathological and clinical conditions. Many of the 35 conditions are subdivided under major categories, such as loss of functional capacities with chronological aging; metabolic syndrome, obesity, insulin resistance, prediabetes/type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic liver disease, cardiovascular diseases, cognitive functions and diseases, bone and connective tissue disorders, cancer, reproductive diseases, and diseases of digestive tract, pulmonary, and kidney.
1.4 Final portion of article
The article ends with considerations of clinical significance, increasing risk factors during long-term sedentarism, the developmental and clinical consequences of inactive childhood/adolescence, and policy.
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2. Definitions
2.1 CDC definitions of forms of physical activity
Verbatim definitions for exercise and health are from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are used where possible due to the authority they carry (90). US governmental definitions were selected for the article to provide the framework for this article's discussions of how 1) exercise/physical activity prevents chronic diseases and 2) lack of physical activity is a primary event that causes chronic diseases.
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