From the Last Year to "Your" New, - thru my slightly "twisted" prism...

So another year is right around the corner. A list of "truism's" perhaps some "perceptions" maybe some "changes" that we all may face in the coming year. Maybe some that have best been learned, maybe some that still need be!

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Women and beauty products - it's a love affair that's been going on for centuries. And no wonder. There's nothing like a new lipstick or favourite perfume to make us look and feel good. Or so we thought...

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Are You Aged 49-59? It Can Be A Crisis for Women

This age is a curious one: liberating yet often frightening. At a time when everything seems to be happening, life can become another mid-life crisis because many women now fear the ageing process, especially if they start to feel unattractive.

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala's Syrian Christians are an unmistakable elite among all major communities in the state in socio-economic indices.

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PORTLAND, Ore. —– In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television.

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Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have shown the first link between a newly discovered anti-aging gene and high blood pressure.

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Does America Respect and Value Older People? (Poll)

When Nancy Pelosi became House Speaker I thought, "Attah Girl"!, simply because no woman in the UK aged in her 50s, let alone 60s, would be allowed to have such high office.

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Understanding The Real Causes of Aging

For me, there are three main causes of ageing.

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Who will you be, or what will you be doing, three years from now?

No one can see into the future and with the recession so biting, it is difficult to predict anything. But, in three years time it would be interesting to see that I have achieved six more important things:

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A drug originating on Easter Island, the mysterious South Pacific home of a lost statue-building people, may become the first substance to slow down human ageing, new research indicates.

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Elixir of life found. According to BBC, when US scientists treated old mice with rapamycin it extended their expected lifespan by up to 38%.

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10 Consequences Of Our Modern World

Thanks to technology, things are changing around us daily, but I wonder if we yet realise the consquences for us if we do not change with them? A brief snapshot of current attitudes reflected within British society is outlined below:

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DNA damage caused by the sun, smoking or an unhealthy lifestyle causes hair to turn grey, a new study has shown.

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In the germline cells that produce eggs or sperm, biological time stands still. This is why babies are all born with the same age, the clock set to zero, regardless of the age of their parents.

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Scientists have discovered key genes that slow the ageing process, which could lead to new hope for people suffering from illnesses ranging from heart disease to Alzheimer's.

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The Main Reasons We Fear Ageing

It seems that at least 42% of people fear ageing. That's nearly half of our population in the UK. Yet, like death, age is an inevitable part of our existence. We cannot NOT age just as we have to die.

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Scientists say they have clinical proof that a face cream available on the high street does reduce wrinkles. More Articles

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"Everyone has assumed we age by rust. But how do you explain animals that don't age? Some tortoises lay eggs at the age of 100, there are whales that live to be 200 and clams that make it past 400 years."

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Older adults often have trouble understanding what someone is saying when surrounded by background noise, such as at a restaurant or party, but their ears may not be the only problem.

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A variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond - moreover, this appears to be true worldwide.

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LONDON: Scientists claim to have taken a step closer to creating an elixir of youth by identifying the chemical processes that lead to ageing.

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A RISE in frail nursing home patients going hungry and thirsty has forced tougher surveillance of the industry.

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Are you afraid of getting older? Here's a challenge for you...

Tell me one thing you can do at 25 that you won't be able to, or can't, do at 50!

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A 77-year-old grandmother has been jailed for trying to smuggle £1m of cocaine into Britain. Terri Judd investigates the new couriers of choice for the trafficking industry

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And at 27 human years, Mischief is still living up to his name despite "slowing down a little", according to owners Chris and Donna Thorne. The Guinness World Records has confirmed there is no record holder in the UK at the moment but the previous oldest cat was 29.

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