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Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging - Oct 2008

Julia R. Barrett
Environmental Health Perspectives

Age-related chronic diseases will put unprecedented stress on U.S. society with a near-doubling of the number of people aged 65 years and older by 2030, according to the U.S. Administration on Aging. These diseases are also complex. An October 2008 report, Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look at Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases, now describes in greater detail how a lifetime of environmental factors from conception onward shapes our health in our later years.

Read the article

Access the report: www.AgeHealthy.org

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