In fact, the two examples which buck the trend - the two body systems which do clearly deteriorate in middle age - make my point for me.
Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Robert Zarbo, a Bechtel engineer working in Iraq, approaches a middle-age man who's wearing a dress shirt and slacks.
While they can often start in early adulthood, the teenage years, or even in childhood, they often extend into middle-age or later, as doctors are seeing more and more.
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Even middle-age couples joined in.
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Many audiophile companies are trying to muddle through with the same formula that has served them so well in the past: focusing on well-heeled men, most in the latter parts of middle age, who are looking for the ultimate in sound.
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In middle age he had taken up hunting, and, at age 66, bagged a 450-kilo Kodiak bear, which he donated to the Yale Peabody Museum.
But he's also a middle-age widower who is deep in grief a year after his wife died.
In middle age he had taken up hunting, and, at age 66, bagged a 1, 000-pound Kodiak bear, which he donated to the Yale Peabody Museum.
Placing a seemingly incongruous space-age pod on a mountain top in the middle of the Alps is something Lovegrove has no qualms about doing.
Items also declared treasure by Norfolk's assistant deputy coroner David Osborne included an Anglo-Saxon silver pin found in Scoulton, a Middle Bronze Age Gold Bead discovered in Salthouse and a hoard of 59 silver Roman coins that date from the Roman Republic to Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome.
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Torres, whose sculpted body has inspired awe in middle-aged women, was battling aches and pains that come with age.
Back in its golden age in the 1950s and 1960s, it offered middle-class people, not just techy high-fliers, a shot at the American dream complete with superb schools and universities, and an enviable physical infrastructure.
Every middle-class American of every age and circumstance will be constantly in the government's sights.
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How Americans react could shape what happens after the trial -- whether, for instance, the videotape stirs any new outrage when the public is reminded that their middle-aged president got sexually involved with a subordinate half his age right in the White House.
We evolved middle age because we have always lived more complex lives than other animals - in the ways we acquire resources, socially and technologically.
Since the age of three, when he ran round his backyard in a leafy, middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires, he's been throwing a rugby ball around.
After controlling for other factors which might influence heart disease risk, they found that high levels of distress at age seven were associated with a 31% increased risk of cardiovascular disease in middle-aged women.
The average baby boomer was likely to have held 11 jobs over the course of his or her career, including "large numbers of short-duration jobs even at middle age, " said the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010.
In an age mildly embarrassed by the royal males' enthusiasm for wearing tweed and killing wildlife, her middle-class origins are a plus.
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From the age of six he had walked to school in Clarksdale, Mississippi, past the house of a middle-aged lady called Miss Boozie.
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