Top 10 Tips for Growing Old Slowly and Gracefully
Good health leads to quality life. Growing old is normal, but reduce the speed of aging is a good thing to do. Brad Bahr has listed his top 10 tips which can keep one young. He talks about topics like smoking, exercise, meal intakes and tips related to pets and plants:
5. Get a pet. Pet owners tend to visit the doctor less, survive longer even after a heart attack, and suffer less from depression and high blood pressure.
9. Live around plants. Having a garden or greenhouse to grow plants in is a wonderful way to decrease stress or recuperate from illness. Just being able to see plants in a room or through windows has been proven to be beneficial to bed-ridden patients.
Some support data would be interesting to see for the #5 tip.
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David Fiander says on August 30th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Try searching PubMed for related literature using the search string
“Animals, Domestic”[MeSH] AND (”Hypertension”[MeSH] OR “Myocardial Infarction”[MeSH])
Four articles that came up on the first page of results (the most recently published articles) include
1: Parslow RA, Jorm AF.
Pet ownership and risk factors for cardiovascular disease: another look.
Med J Aust. 2003 Nov 3;179(9):466-8.
PMID: 14583076 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
2: Allen K, Blascovich J, Mendes WB.
Cardiovascular reactivity and the presence of pets, friends, and spouses: the
truth about cats and dogs.
Psychosom Med. 2002 Sep-Oct;64(5):727-39.
PMID: 12271103 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
3: Allen K, Shykoff BE, Izzo JL Jr.
Pet ownership, but not ace inhibitor therapy, blunts home blood pressure
responses to mental stress.
Hypertension. 2001 Oct;38(4):815-20.
PMID: 11641292 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4: Friedmann E, Thomas SA.
Pet ownership, social support, and one-year survival after acute myocardial
infarction in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST).
Am J Cardiol. 1995 Dec 15;76(17):1213-7.
PMID: 7502998 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Ed says on October 25th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Awesome article. I myself have a blog about HGH.