As more older women reject frozen faces and pillow cheeks, there are new approaches to ageing well. From actress Helen Mirren, 72, to model Elle Macpherson, 52, today’s active, energetic older celebrities present a very different image to the stereotype of the homey, grey-haired granny. But then, in recent years, our idea of what it [...]

Oxidative stress has been suggested to affect age-associated physiological dysfunction. Therefore, it is speculated that antioxidant supplements could have a potential role in preventing age-related diseases and death. Among different dietary habits, the highly antioxidant Mediterranean dietary pattern, which includes high vegetable and fruit intake, consumption of legumes, cereals, and fish, low intake of meat [...]

With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever. Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. The slow way is the familiar one: decades pass with little sense of internal change, middle age arrives with only a slight slowing down—a name [...]