Exercise and Aging
Exercise is the activity that results in contraction of skeletal muscle. The term is usually used in reference to any activity that promotes physical fitness (Encarta, exercise). Aging is inevitable, but exercise can help you live a longer healthier life.
The first group of people to utilize the benefits of exercise was the Greeks. Aristotle was a famous philosopher of the time, who brought this concept to the people at the time. In 1523, the Spanish explorer and conquistador Ponce de Leon went searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth. He discovered Florida. The idea of mythical youth is still very much alive in our culture because we desire to look youthful and we desire to actually be youthful (Encarta, exercise). This is one of the ironies of life. Throughout childhood you can't wait to be an adult. Then, once you've been an adult for a while, you'd do anything to be young again.
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A community netball team trains during the week in...Physical exercise is one "anything" a person can do to not only feel young but to physiologically slow the aging process.
To prevent or delay aging a way must be found to control overactive genes, say Dr. Samuel Goldstein of the University of Arkansas and Anna McCormick, Ph.D. of the National Institute on Aging. The ultimate anti-aging discovery would be a drug that could suppress the master gene, stopping cells from beginning their destructive course (Fixx). Until this discovery (and well after) our anti-aging bullet can be exercise. Exercise is the closest thing to an anti-aging pill there is, says Alex Leif, M.D., a professor at the Harvard Medical School of Gerontology. "Regular daily physical activity has been a way of life for virtually ever person who has reached the age of 100 in sound condition." Studies at...
Its an alright paper!
Along with citation errors the paper is hard to beleive. You say that there are no theories on why we age when there are several. For example the catholics beleive in aging by a process of fulfilling a life of god. And the most common thoery of why we age is called a circle of life, we are born and then we die, we need help as babies and we need help as we get older.
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