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.
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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