Would you ever eat and drink a lot of sugar, let it bathe your teeth 24 hours a day for days on end, never brushing and never visiting a dentist? That's foolish, you'd say, and everyone would agree. It's much smarter to take positive, preventive steps like reducing sugar, brushing after each meal and getting regular dental checkups than to deal with drilling and pulling later. Imagine making all the...
4/5/2011 9:20:37 PM
New research from Eileen Crimmins, and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, published in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of Gerontology.shows that average "morbidity," or, the period of life spent with serious disease or loss of functional mobility, has increased in the last few decades. The proportion of the population with multiple diseases also increased. Crimmins said, "The growing problem of lifelong...
4/5/2011 9:04:56 PM