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Keeping Good Health in Your Elder Years

Keeping Good Health in Your Elder Years
Socializing, staying engaged in life, exercising and eating well can have a major impact in how you age. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock
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Healthy aging is about getting older without disease or disability, maintaining cognitive and physical function while actively engaging with the world.

Healthy aging, or anti-aging, is about doing what you can to keep your body and mind active and engaged. When you are focused on doing those things, you’ll stay as young as you feel.

Mohan Garikiparithi
Mohan Garikiparithi
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Mohan Garikiparithi, MD, practiced clinical medicine for over a decade before shifting his focus to health communications. During his practice he served as the head of the Dept. of Microbiology in India. During a three-year communications program in Germany, Mohan developed an interest in German Medicine (Homoeopathy), and other alternative systems of medicine.
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