In this Make Aging Work blog post, author Gary Foster points out: The back-nine begins the down-slope as age accelerates its processes. The decisions during the front-nine highly impact the type and intensity of the decisions that need to be made during the back nine. We can’t stop the slope, but we can do a lot to slow it and reduce the severity.

In other words(to be perfectly clear), what you do in your earlier years affects what happens in your later years-but you can change this by making lifestyle change- particularly about what you eat and how much you exercise.

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