I am going to write my article on something that we all must face if we are fortunate to do so: Aging. What I am looking for is the history of ways people have gone to reach the fountain of youth. I will also research about the aging process. These things will be for a natural lifetime. What I am also interested in when it comes to aging, is future technologies that are to be introduced and experimentations on lengthening the life span, and reducing the physical ailments of aging.
For those that have read biblical testimonies, it states in the Old Testament that up until Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, people lived to be a couple hundred years old. In the manuscript, it states that after they ate, life span slowed down from 900 years with Adam to 1210 years with Moses. The reason that people lived so long was because they were perfection in their creator’s eyes, living a life without sin, until sin was introduced. (Wellman) So now we are …show more content…
In a number of tests by scientists, there is a link to aging and how we feel about it affects our aging. The study shows that people who think negatively on aging will age the same way and vice versa for positive individuals. A major problem in this is that aging has a more negative outlook than positive. You have cancers, heart failure, and many other consequences that come with aging. But there is hope still. Researchers at Yale gave positive subliminal messages to elderly people and found long-term their health improved. Psychologists and therapists are following their footsteps as well as helping those get over depression and harmful habits people acquire. The four ways experts say we can look at aging positively, amidst our negative social stereotypes is one, to understand the difference between facts and myths, two, see stereotypes, three substitute those negative to positive stereotypes, and four, accept our aging
For those that have read biblical testimonies, it states in the Old Testament that up until Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, people lived to be a couple hundred years old. In the manuscript, it states that after they ate, life span slowed down from 900 years with Adam to 1210 years with Moses. The reason that people lived so long was because they were perfection in their creator’s eyes, living a life without sin, until sin was introduced. (Wellman) So now we are …show more content…
In a number of tests by scientists, there is a link to aging and how we feel about it affects our aging. The study shows that people who think negatively on aging will age the same way and vice versa for positive individuals. A major problem in this is that aging has a more negative outlook than positive. You have cancers, heart failure, and many other consequences that come with aging. But there is hope still. Researchers at Yale gave positive subliminal messages to elderly people and found long-term their health improved. Psychologists and therapists are following their footsteps as well as helping those get over depression and harmful habits people acquire. The four ways experts say we can look at aging positively, amidst our negative social stereotypes is one, to understand the difference between facts and myths, two, see stereotypes, three substitute those negative to positive stereotypes, and four, accept our aging