can men and women be friendsThis article on exercise and aging keeps appearing in our in box from the New York Times. It really is inspiring and we think you will want to share it as well.

“Exercise among middle-aged and older adults in the Western world is rare. By most estimates, only about 10 percent of people past the age of 65 work out regularly.

So, our expectations about what is normal during aging are based on how growing older affects sedentary people.

But the British scientists, many of them recreational athletes, suspected that exercise might have an impact on the trajectory of physical aging and, if so, alter our beliefs about what ‘normal’ aging means.”

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