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Tim Carpenter is changing the way elderly Californians experience aging by turning low-cost senior housing communities into vibrant centers for learning and creativity. The 13-year-old Los Angeles-area program, EngAGE, provides arts, theater and wellness classes for some 5,000 people — the vast majority of them low-income — living in senior apartment communities.
It still may taste "magically delicious," but Lucky Charms will soon undergo a makeover that could change the look of its yellow moons, pink hearts and green clovers.
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A 58-year-old man had had Parkinson's disease for 10 years, and it had progressed until he was severely affected, unable to walk. He could walk only a few steps before falling, but the man told Dr. Bloem something amazing: he said he was a daily cyclist.
The unique design of a woodpecker and the cycling crash where he landed on his head has led Londoner Anirudha Surabhi to come up with a more effective design for a bike helmet. The woodpecker pecks at about ten times per second and every time it pecks it sustains the same amount of force as us crashing at 50 miles per hour, says Surabhi. It's the only bird in the world where the skull and the beak are completely disjointed, and there's a soft corrugated cartilage in the middle that absorbs all the impact.
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Adding fish oil to your diet can boost microbes that may prevent weight gain.
After joining a clinical trial at Boston Children's Hospital, Katie Mills started to speak in complete sentences for the first time, her 30-second attention span extended into minutes, and she was finally able to retain information from one day to the next, said her mother, Susan Mills. "We'd had a child who had basically been 2 years old for four years," said Mills, of Whiteville, N.C. But after four months, "she was communicating in ways she had never done before. It was amazing. It was like it was a totally different child.
A 95-year-old retired dentist has set a new world record for his age group in the 200 meter indoor sprint, knocking a massive 2.4 seconds off the previous record. But he's only been running for a few years. Bodybuilding and never retiring, says Charles Eugster, are the secrets to his success.
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