MYTH: Getting older frequently mean...
MYTH: Getting older frequently means becoming sick.
TRUTH: The overwhelming majority of North Americans have little functional disability, and the proportion of the somewhat advanced in life that is disabled is actually going down--not up Compared to 65- to 75-year-old individuals in 1960 similarly aged nation in 1990 exhibited a dramatic reduction in three important precursors to chronic disease: high kindred pressure, high cholesterol level and smoking.
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