Kinesiology 4474A/B Final: Kin 4474 Final

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When imaging old age, people might consider a decline in physical functioning and health that will accompany aging, and predict that old age will be less enjoyable than early adulthood. Such thinking can result in an impact bias: tendency to overestimate how many circumstances can impact their well-being, age-resistance is a futile kind of life resistance, we can remain vital and present, and continue to grow. How can we make our community more age-friendly: role models you"ll adopt a lifestyle similar to their lifestyle if you see healthy active old people. Recall: inverse association between telomere length and disease risk: age-related diseases associated with shorter telomeres. Longitudinal study (refer to the figure on the next page: 814 participants, aged 61-82yrs, measured physical activity levels and telomere length (rltl, findings: When they looked at how long these individuals had to be exercisers for (i. e. years), they didn"t find a difference between being inactive to exercising consistently for 10 years.

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