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Press Release: President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Announces Agreement to Work with Stanford Center on Longevity to Improve the Fitness of People at All Ages

The following is an official press release from the U.S. President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Washington, D.C. – The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition has reached agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL) to work together to “identify strategies to advance awareness and promotion… Read more Press Release: President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Announces Agreement to Work with Stanford Center on Longevity to Improve the Fitness of People at All Ages

9/17/2014 - New Insight On Alzheimer’s: What Increases Your Risk

The two seemingly unrelated conditions may be driven by similar unhealthy states, including high blood pressure and diabetes. Read the flu article at Time.

9/17/2014 - Sit Less, Live Longer?

If people need motivation to get up from their office chairs or couches and become less sedentary, two useful new studies could provide the impetus. One found that sitting less can slow the aging process within cells, and the other helpfully underscores that standing up — even if you are standing still — can be… Read more 9/17/2014 - Sit Less, Live Longer?

9/17/2014 - Panel Urges Overhauling Health Care at End of Life

The country’s system for handling end-of-life care is largely broken and should be overhauled at almost every level, a national panel concluded in a report released on Wednesday. Read the full article at The New York Times.

9/17/2014 - What Happens When We All Live to 100?

If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways. Read the full article at The Atlantic.

9/16/2014 - On New Measurements of Aging

Pediatricians chart children’s growth at every visit, tracking how they conform to age-appropriate standards. What if standard measures of aging were similarly available? Read the full article at The New York Times.

9/15/2014 - Teen Invents Sensor to Help Alzheimer's Patients

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, of the estimated five million Americans with the disease, about 60 percent of them wander — and often become dangerously lost — as a result. A fifteen-year-old has invented a pressure sensor that when worn on the bottom of the foot or with a sock detects an increase in pressure and… Read more 9/15/2014 - Teen Invents Sensor to Help Alzheimer's Patients

9/15/2014 - Hedge funder offers $1 million to cure...aging?

9/12/2014 - Tougher Than They Look

Scientists have been writing and thinking about resilience for several decades. Now, in Dr. Manning’s study of 10,753 people (average age: almost 69) drawn from three waves of the national Health and Retirement Study, “we’re starting to measure it,” Dr. Manning said — “as squishy and fuzzy a concept as it is.” Read the full… Read more 9/12/2014 - Tougher Than They Look

9/12/2104 - Elderly New Yorkers, Here for the Duration

It used to be that New Yorkers of a certain age reflexively said goodbye to all this — the traffic, the tumult, the long lines and the incomparable bagels — and headed south or west for their sunset years. No longer. Around town these days there are many more than 50 shades of gray. According… Read more 9/12/2104 - Elderly New Yorkers, Here for the Duration