Blog
Save
Email
Print
ShareLongevity is defined as long life or the length of a person's life (life expectancy).
Reflections on longevity have usually gone beyond acknowledging the basic shortness of human life and have included thinking about methods to extend life.
For more information about the topic Longevity, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
Senescence — In biology, senescence is the combination of processes of deterioration which follow the period of development of an organism. For the science of the ... > read more
Calorie restricted diet — Calorie restriction or Caloric restriction (CR) is the practice of limiting dietary energy intake in the hope that it will improve health and retard ... > read more
Basal metabolic rate — Basal metabolic rate (BMR), is the rate of metabolism that occurs when an individual is at rest in a warm environment and is in the post absorptive ... > read more
Bran — Bran is the hard outer layer of cereal grains, and consists of combined aleurone and pericarp. Along with germ, it is an integral part of whole ... > read more
Blueberry — Blueberries are a group of flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native to North America and eastern Asia. They ... > read more
Vegetarianism — Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat. Vegetarians may consume dairy and egg products; a stricter form is veganism, which excludes dairy, ... > read more
Overweight — The term overweight is generally used to indicate that a human (or other mammal) has more body fat than is typical or required for the normal ... > read more
DNA repair — DNA repair refers to a collection of processes by which a cell identifies and corrects damage to the DNA molecules that encode its genome. In human ... > read more
Genetically modified organism — A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as ... > read more
Healthy diet — A healthy diet contains a balance of food groups and all the nutrients necessary to promote good health. Human nutrition is enormously complex and a ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Longevity at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Recommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:
Other bookmarking and sharing tools:
more 