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		<title>Reversing muscle aging (sarcopenia)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the body ages muscles gradually get weaker and less able to bear load.  This has a huge impact on the whole body as muscles help to support the body  organs and keep everything together. Also quality of life issues are impacted as  with the reduction in strength comes the reduction in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/reversing-muscle-aging-sarcopenia/</link>
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		<title>4 changes to add years to your life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adopting four healthy behaviours can add up to 14 years of extra life if you  were not following them before. This includes not smoking, moderate alcohol  intake, taking exercise and eating five servings of fruit and vegetables per  day. These  results come from a study published in PLoS Medicine journal. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/4-changes-to-add-years-to-your-life/</link>
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		<title>Congestive heart failure and disability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heart disease not only has a high risk of death it also carries with it a  huge quality of life burden. So even though medical breakthroughs have allowed  heart attack survivors to get extra years, it also means that increasing numbers  will end up with disability or have to live in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/congestive-heart-failure-and-disability/</link>
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		<title>Cosmetic Surgery Risks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cosmetic surgery has gone from being something which only a minority of  people do to something which is much more socially acceptable and affordable. In  the UK in 2005, 300,000 cosmetic treatments were performed while in the  following year 577,000 were performed (an increase of over 90%) and a market  analyst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/cosmetic-surgery-risks/</link>
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		<title>Sedentary life associated with accelerated aging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having an active lifestyle appears to make people biologically younger, this  is from a report from the January 28th issues of the Archives of Internal  Medicine. This reinforces what many take for granted, but it is important to  back up common sense with actual data.
Regular exercises have the following traits; lower rates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/sedentary-life-associated-with-accelerated-aging/</link>
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		<title>Aging and age related diseases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it is important for serious money to be put into fixing the problems  of aging, aging needs to have the same stature as other diseases such as Cancer,  Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s. These other disease are all aging related  diseases as the number one indicator of whether you are likely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/aging-and-age-related-diseases/</link>
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		<title>Repairing the eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than half a million people in the uk have irreversible blindness which  is caused by macular degeneration. This is close to 1 percent of the whole  population. A large portion of these are the elderly. The disease is one where  there is a progressive loss of vision in the center due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/repairing-the-eye/</link>
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		<title>Regenerative medicine for horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regenerative medicine has the potential to change the face of medicine. It  stretches from repopulating skin, to regrowing whole organs. A new heart could  be grown from your own stem cells, or muscles could be repopulated countering  sarcopenia. It is difficult to understate the importance of this technology.
It may seem odd that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/regenerative-medicine-for-horses/</link>
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		<title>Cure for flu (ACAM-FLU-A)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There may be potentially a single treatment which could provide protection  against all types of flu. This would be a huge boost as many age related deaths  are caused as the immune system is already weak and then being unable to cope  with illnesses which at a younger age would be shrugged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/cure-for-flu-acam-flu-a/</link>
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		<title>Infra red could help with dementia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research has been pioneered at the University of  Sunderland which shows that exposure to safe low levels of infra-red light  can improve the cognitive functions of the brain. The current state of play with  medical treatments for dementia is that they slow the deterioration of the  brain, while this treatment could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fixaging.com/infra-red-could-help-with-dementia/</link>
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