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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....
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Don Jaime, a sus ochenta años, debe dar un paso fuera de sus planes: mudarse a la casa de su hijo, su nuera y sus nietos. Nadie estaba a gusto con esto, pero la situación los obligó a aceptar al nuevo huésped. Lo que ninguno imaginó es que esta decisión cambiaría radicalmente la vida de todos.Héroes entre nosotros es un viaje revelador al mundo de nuestros adultos mayores. Nos brinda herramientas indispensables para entender y amar a nuestros...
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Aguilar
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2019
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"Envejecer es una parte natural del ciclo de la vida. Sin embargo, todos queremos vernos y sentirnos más jóvenes, y tener la energía y vitalidad de años pasados. La clave está en dos cosas: prevenir y tratar adecuadamente. Para el Doctor Daniel Campos envejecer es un sinónimo de victoria, una victoria que requiere estar preparados para poder vivir más y vivir mejor. Con la preparación y la información adecuada, podemos disfrutar de nuestros...
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"A lively, deeply reportedtour of the latest in fitness science and technology, revealing the strategies of elite and amateur athletes as they stay fit longer than ever before. Age and sports: try talking about one without the other. At their core, sports are about challenging our physical limits. Age is the final and most stubborn of those limits. It's through sports and exercise that many of us first experience the reality of aging. Yet as the American...
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Part memoir, part scientific investigation, Racing the Clock is the book biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich has been waiting his entire life to write. A dedicated and accomplished marathon (and ultra-marathon) runner who won his first marathon at age thirty-nine, Heinrich looks deeply at running, aging, and the body, exploring the unresolved relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age. Why do some bodies age differently than...
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