Standing tall

Published: March, 2014

Exercises can help with the bad posture and osteoporosis that cause us to stoop and lose height as we get older.

With chronological addition comes some anatomical and physiological subtraction. As we age, we experience decrements in everything from hair and hearing to memory and muscle.

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