Though much psychological research traditionally has focused on problems and maladjustment, recently there has been more interest in positive psychology, qualities that promote personal well-being across the life span. In this section, several of the positive aspects of later life social cognition that have received attention within personality psychology are briefly discussed. These include generativity, ego integrity and coping, optimism and perceived control, and wisdom. (more…)

Your potential average and maximum life spans will be substantially increased by the nutrient-rich food.

Let’s say that your hereditary potential the age you might expect to reach based upon the genes you’ve inherited from your parents is to live to be 80 years old. Let’s assume that you started and stuck to a rather high percentage of calorie limit, beginning at age 20. Over that remaining 60 years you might expect to age at half the expected rate, be “functionally” 50 when you were in fact chronologically 80. Your 60 years would thus stretch out to 120. (more…)

Aerobic exercise is one form of exercise with low to moderate intensity which is done for a longer or a moderate duration. With aerobic exercise, our blood flow increases to the muscles, thus strengthening cardiovascular and lungs. Muscles need oxygen, and the increases muscle activity associated with aerobic exercise makes body to allow for more oxygen to the muscles being used. This does the heart and lungs working better and harder. At the end it will also strengthens the lungs and the entire cardiovascular system. There are also another term that you may have heard before: Anaerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise is in contrast to anaerobic exercise which usually involves intense activity that is abruptly or short in duration, such as weight lifting. (more…)