1 *8 Old And Active It is well—known that life expectancy is longer in Japan than in most other countries. A long life is the result of improvement in social environment. Scientists are trying to work out exactly what keeps elderly Japanese people so healthy, any changes to our eating habits, for instance, or go jogging each day before breakfast? Is there some secret ingredient in the Japanese diet that is particularly beneficial to the human body? birthrateAlthough longer life should be celebrated, it is actually considered a social problem The number of older people had doubled in the last half century and that has increased so many old people to be looked after and relatively few younger people working and paying taxes to support them give the elderly a sense of responsibility and mission in life. It’s important that the elderly play active roles in the society and live in harmony with all generations. Whether or not exercise adds to the length of life, it is common experience that a certain amount of regular exercise improves the health and contributes a feeling of well-being. mental fatigue in so doing, is not only pleasant but beneficial. How much and what kind of exercise one should take merits careful consideration.The strenuous sports. They fatigue to the point of exhaustion but recover promptly with a period of rest. But not so with those _of middle age and beyond. For them moderation is of vital answer. Individual variability is too great to permit of generalization. A game of tennis may be perfectly safe for one person of forty but folly for another. The sage limit for exercise depends regularity with which it is taken. Two general suggestions, however, will serve as sound advice for anyone. The first is that the condition of the heart and general health should be determined kept below the point of physical exhaustion. What type of exercise one should choose _depens upon one’s physical condition. Young themselves to less strenuous activities. Walking, swimming, skating are among the sports that one can enjoy and safely participate in throughout life. Regularity is important if one is to get *6 Once-daily Pill Could Simplify HIV Treatment single pill Sometimes the best medicine is more than one kind of medicine. Malaria, can mean a lot of pills to take. It would be simpler if drug companies combined all the medicines into a single pill, taken just once a day. Now, two companies say they have done that for people just starting treatment for HIV, the have developed a single pill that combines three drugs currently on the market.3 Bristol-Myers Viread, into a single pill in two thousand four. Combining drugs involves more than technical issues. It also involves issues of competition if the drugs are made by different companies. The new once-daily pill is the result In January the New England Journal of Medicine5 published a study of the new pill. Combivir. Combivir contains two drugs, AZT7 and 3TC.8 The researchers say that after one year of treatment, the new pill suppressed HIV levels in more patients and with fewer side Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, led the research. He is a paid adviser to Gilead and Bristol-Meyers Squibb as well as the maker of Combivir, GlaxoSmithKline. Glaxo Smith Kline reacted to the findings by saying that a single study is of limited value. The price of the new once-daily pill has not been announced. But Gilead and Bristol-Myers Squibb say they will provide it at reduced cost to developing countries. They plan in the next There are limits to who could take it because of the different drugs it contains. For example, more than forty million people around the world are living with HIV *9 Many Women Who Beat Cancer Don't Change Habits However, a new study shows that for many women, the changes aren't always positive or Beth Snoke has watched her mother and both grandmothers battle and survive breast recent report also shows that Japan has the longest health expectancy in the worldA healthy and whether there is a lesson to be learnt from their lifestyles for the rest of us. Should we make Another factor contributing to the rapid population aging in Japan is a decline in pension and medical costsThe country could soon be facing an economic problem, if there are Raising the retirement age from 65 to 70 could be one solution to the problem. Work can *7 Exercise Furthermore, exerise which involves play and recreation, and relieves nervous tension and growing child and the normal young man and young woman thrill with the exhilaration of importance. Just how much exercise a person of a given age can safely take is question hard _to on the condition of the heart, the condition of the muscles, the type of exercise, and the periodically by careful, thorough physical examinations. The other is that exercise should be people can safely enjoy vigorous competitive sports, but most older persons do better to limit the most enjoyment and benefit out of exercise. Bristol-Myers Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences have combined many HIV drugs into a tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS,2 for example, are all treated with combinations of drugs. But that virus that causes AIDS. The companies are Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences. They Squibb sells one of them under the name of Sustiva.4 Gilead combined the others, Emtriva and of what is described as the first joint venture agreement of its kind in the treatment of HIV Researchers compared its effectiveness to6 that of the widely used combination of Sustiva and effects.9 Gilead paid for the study. Professor Joel Gallant at the Johns Hopkins School of It says the effectiveness of Combivir has been shown in each of more than fifty studies. few months to ask the United States Food and Drug Administration10 to approve the new pill. pregnant women are told not to take Sustiva because of the risk of birth disorders.11 Experts say Many women who battle breast cancer will tell you it's a life-changing experience. permanent.
