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  • Sofia Vergara Would Rather Pack Her Face in Cement Than Age

    Sofia Vergara is in her 40s. Even at that age, she makes lots of younger women jealous, and turns men’s heads wherever she goes.

    But Vergara revealed recently that she has a fear about aging.

    “I don’t want to age,” Vergara said in a recent interview. “If you said applying cement around my eyes would stop wrinkles, I would do it.”

    Vergara went on to share her beauty secrets with the magazine’s readers, but she admits that there is really no replacement for just actually being young. Still, she also knows that there are advantages to getting older, like having more confidence.

    “I’m not going to lie, I liked being in my 20s,” she says. “Youth makes everyone look good. Your skin looks better, your hair looks better. But as you get older, you figure it out. You get more confident – and that’s beautiful.”

    But having that confidence also comes from knowing that you have the right tools to stay looking the way you want to look, even as your age number clicks higher year after year.

    “If it makes you happier and more confident, then why not? But I also think you have to do your research, so you know what to expect – that you’ll look fresher but not necessarily younger,” she revealed to InStyle magazine.

    Vergara tries to take the whole thing in stride. She probably wouldn’t actually do the whole cement thing. Then again, using basic minerals as foundation is the rage nowadays.

    But Vergara thinks she has struck a balance between staying beautiful and aging gracefully and confidently.

    “I don’t want to age, but hey, what can you do? It’s a natural process. I’m trying to do it gracefully,”

    If she keeps that attitude, maybe she will avoid the Botox and scalpel approach that so many aging actresses seem to go for. So far, it looks liek she just doesn’t need it.

  • Here’s A Google Talk About Ending Aging

    The most recent “Talks at Google” recording released deals with the topic of ending aging, something Google itself appears to be somewhat interested in. Last year, the company started Calico aimed at extending life.

    This particular talk comes from Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey, Ph.D. (wow, that’s a lot of initials), Chief Science Officer at SENS Research Foundation.

    “Aubrey de Grey has drawn up a roadmap to defeat biological aging,” Google explains in the video description. “He provocatively proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. In this talk he describes ongoing research into extending healthy human life, and describes how therapies which can add 30 healthy years to the remaining lifespan of a typical 60-year-old may well arrive in the next few decades.”

    His book, which he discusses in the talk, is appropriately titled “Ending Aging”.

    The talk was recorded on April 7th.

    More recent At Google talks here.

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  • Jane Fonda Says “Staying Active” is the Key to Long Life

    Jane Fonda, the famous 76-year-old actress and fitness activist credits an active lifestyle for keeping her emotionally centered and healthy later in life. “I believe in fitness,” Fonda says. “Whether you’re young, old, whether you’ve ever been exercising or just starting. It’s important. Maybe the most important thing in having a successful, long life.”

    The star, who released her 23rd workout video just last year, says that staying physically active can play a crucial role in fighting depression and nervous breakdowns. “If you’re in the middle of a breakdown, working out really hard is not a bad thing because it does keep you from going over the edge – it gets the endorphins going. It makes all the difference in the world.” When asked how she’s stayed sane and humble in Hollywood after all these years, Fonda replied, “The fact that I have always remained physically active has had a great deal to do with it. It has kept me centred and balanced emotionally.”

    The other motivating factor? Endorphins. “My energy is going, my blood is flowing and you know everything is moving. I also feel good because I am proud of myself – I did it! You know what I mean? That’s what keeps me going.”

    All of the fitness, emotional balance, and endorphins contribute to Fonda’s positive outlook on aging. “When you’re outside of aging it’s really, really scary but when you’re in the middle of it it’s not scary at all,” she says. Fonda also isn’t embarrassed to admit she’s had a bit of plastic surgery for “bags and sagging” and has had hip and knee replacements. “I’m glad I live at a time when you can replace fenders and hubcaps… instead of saying ‘well, I have these problems so I’m going to stop’, what’s happened is I’ve adjusted how I work out to my physical limitations.”

    Post by Jane Fonda.

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  • 8-Year-Old the Size of a Newborn

    The typical 8-year-old child weighs anywhere from 57 to 60 pounds and has a height of about 45 inches. Gabby Williams is not a typical 8-year old.

    “She had a real scary birth,” said Gabby’s mother, Mary Margret Williams. “The doctors told me that she wasn’t breathing. It took the whole crew to get her going again. I thought she was OK for awhile and then she wouldn’t eat. … They sent me home and said, ‘I don’t think this baby is going to make it for much longer.’

    Despite her dramatic entrance into the world, Gabby will soon be 9-years-old. She weighs only 11 pounds and is no bigger than a newborn baby. Gabby has to be fed, have her diaper changed, and is cradled as though she is still an infant. Gabby is also blind and will never be able to speak to her family.

    “She cries when she is hurting and sometimes smiles,” said Williams. “But there’s not a whole lot of communication. She is definitely very slow, but she knows when mama and grandma are holding her,” she said. “She comforts to people around her. She knows her sisters, who have watched her quite a bit and listens to them play. We have a wild bunch around here.”

    Gabby was diagnosed with an extremely rare disease; so rare that it has no name. There are only a few other people, across the world, that share Gabby’s disease, which prevents their bodies from being able to grow.

    Medical researcher, Richard Walker has been working for two years to try and determine what is causing them not to age, and he is trying to figure out what he can do to stop it.

    “In some people, something happens to them and the development process is retarded,” said Walker. “The rate of change in the body slows and is negligible. My whole career has been focused on the aging process. My fixation has been not on the consequences but the cause of it.”

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    One of Williams’ biggest concerns has always been whether or not her other children (there are five others besides Gabby) will have children of their own like their sister. “We did find out with Dr. Walker when he did the gene sequencing that it’s not something we can pass on but just an abnormality, a mutated gene that was just happenstance,” she said. “That was a relief for us.”

    Doctors are unsure of Gabby’s lifespan since there is so little known about her disease. Doctors didn’t believe that Gabby would live long past her birth, but she has surpassed all expectations and has made it almost 9 years.

    “From the time of her birth, we didn’t think she would be with us very long,” said her mother. “The fact is she is now going on 9 years. She kind of surpassed my expectations from the get go. We took her home and decided to love her as she is,” said Williams. “Gabby is still with us today. She is tougher than most of us.”

    The TLC television special, “40-Year-Old Child: A New Case,” airs on Monday, Aug. 19, at 10 p.m. ET. The show will follow-up on Gabby’s story, which originally aired last year.

  • Why We Have to Die (Scientifically Speaking) [VIDEO]

    “Mother, why do I have to die?’

    “Well, Timmy, it’s because our cells stop replicating. And so that we’re not riddled with cancer by the age of two. Oh, and because I passed it down to you and you’re a ticking timebomb. Any more questions?”

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  • Smoking Rots Brain, Shows Aging Study

    A new study shows that smoking, high blood pressure, and other cardiovascular risk factors are associated with accelerated declines in memory, learning, attention, and reasoning. Smoking was linked most clearly with low cognitive performance in older people.

    The study, published today in the journal Age and Ageing, looked at adults over the age of 50 who were part of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Those who smoked, had high blood pressure, or were at risk of suffering a stroke performed worse than other adults on cognitive tasks designed to measure things such as memory recall, verbal fluency, and attention.

    Smoking was the factor most consistently linked to overall lower cognitive performance. Adults with a high body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and stroke risk performed more poorly on cognitive tests, but performances varied across the tests. High BMI was associated with lower scores on the memory test, high blood pressure with lower scores on memory and overall cognitive performance, and high stroke risk with lower scores on all cognitive assessments.

    “Cognitive decline becomes more common with aging and for an increasing number of people interferes with daily functioning and wellbeing,” said Dr. Alex Dregan, lead author of the study and lecturer in translational epidemiology and public health at King’s College London. “Some older people can become forgetful, have trouble remembering common words or have problems organizing daily tasks more than others.

    “We have identified a number of risk factors which could be associated with accelerated cognitive decline, all of which could be modifiable. This offers valuable knowledge for future prevention and treatment interventions.”

    The study’s authors claim that the study is one of only a few longitudinal studies to research the combined effect of multiple risk factors on cognitive decline in older people and one of the few studies to study cognitive decline in older people over a long period of time. Dregan stated that the study could form the basis of future clinical trials that seek to identify interventions for the U.K.’s aging population.

  • Data Promises New Technology May Help You Lose Your Reading Glasses

    It’s not often you hear about a new technology product that has so far had 100% positive results and this one promises excellent eye saving news for all those currently using reading glasses who would like to lose them . A study recently published in Scientific Reports showed that a new technology product actually helped the participants suffering from Presbyopia to overcome the natural effect of aging on their eyes and improved their vision.

    Presbyopia is a condition in which the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus, making it difficult to see objects up close. The eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age. For most people, the solution starts with picking up a pair of reading glasses at the local drug store. In the study, all the subjects required reading glasses to read the font size of a typical newspaper. Amazingly, they all became glasses free after only three months of using GlassesOff, a non-invasive, pure software solution that targets brain performance rather than lens aging.

    This iPhone app promises to help you achieve over 80% improvement in vision acuity by training your brain to better process the blurred images that result from near-vision deterioration. GlassOff is made by the company, Ucansi, and is set to launch early next year on iPhone.

    Researchers at the School of Optometry and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, at the University of California, Berkeley said, “The improvement in visual performance of the study participants was achieved without changing the optical characteristics of the eye, which may be encouraging to those who have to use reading glasses. The results suggest that the aging brain retains enough plasticity to overcome the lens’s natural biological changes that occur with age, and potentially help improve the quality of life of an aging population that needs to use reading glasses.”

    Spectacular news for everyone wanting to lose those frame and glass weights around their necks.