If youre still alive, youre growing older every day.
You may not notice it, but you are.
When we make that great shift out of our teenage years into our twenties, most of the changes we encounter about growing older are good.
Whe we are in our twenties, growing older means a lot more freedom and a lot of adventure. Physically, we are at our peak of perfection.
In our thirties, we are starting to enjoy many of the benefits of growing older as we accumulate more wisdom and in most cases, continue to have a body and a brain thats still in great shape.
But there comes a time, perhaps in our fifth decade, or in our sixth, when growing older starts to have some negative effects we dont really like.
We may not be as physically fit as we used to be. We start to get sags and bags. We get aches and pains. We may be showing some forgetfulness.
Our beautiful perfection of youth is gone.
Why do we age?
Over the centuries, people have often wondered how it is that our bodies grow and develop from a tiny fertilized egg, to a newborn baby, to a young child, then a teenager and, finally, a young adult. A huge number of very...