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There's a very significant piece of knowledge commonly posessed by people, and it's significant information that is wrong: That piece of information is that aging is only how long you've physically been around. The actual fact is, as the educational book of Lifespan Development says, that there are two kinds of aging: Primary aging is a term that refers to the inevitable, actual time that a person has been around since birth and causes developments such as greying hair. On the other hand, there is also a kind of aging refered to as secondary aging, in which the body advances in its age as a result of influences of the environment and lifestyle of the individual. (Lifestyle, pg 334) The additional aging from secondary aging can be atttributed to sedentary lifestyle, in which the individual doesn't live a healthy way. This overall concept is important, when in an article, it is revealed that 12 older men averaging the age of 84 actually were healthy enough in mind to match up against middle-aged volunteers with the average age of 58. They even outperformed 10 healthy older folk averaging one less year of age than them, dubbed to be 'SuperAgers'. (Introducing the SuperAgers) This is an important discovery, as it reveals that the deteriation of mental performance may actually be influenced by secondary aging instead of primary aging!

Boyd, Denise, Bee, Helen. //Lifespan Development.// Second Custom Edition For St. Johns River State College, Boston, Massachusetts: Prentice Hall, 2012 Jarrett, Christian, BPS Research Digest, "Introducing the SuperAgers - the elderly people whose brains have stayed young." Web 27, April, 2013 []

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