Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter 4: Chapter 4
26 Mar 2017
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Physical changes: aging today: six reasons to exercise, exercise builds aerobic power and improves breathing, exercise reduces blood pressure which is the number one form of heart disease, exercise lowers your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This can affect how people interpret changes in their physical functioning: changes that occur in the body re ect social factors like class, race and gender. Is the most vulnerable to age related changes. Small wrinkles, slight drooping or loss of resilience and changes in colour and texture starry occurring when you"re in your 30s. The skin later in life becomes translucent so it"s easy to see bones and veins: growths occur around the time your 50. The subcutaneous fat layer starts to thin in middle adulthood therefore providing less support for the layers above it resulting in sagging and wrinkling. Toenails grow slower and get more yellow, thicker and ridged.
