lifespan

“That’s what happens when you get old and don’t eat enough calcium.”

This statement gets repeated often enough it sounds like an old milk commercial.  It’s referring to the increasing, sometimes dramatic, rounding of the middle and upper back that happens in some older people—is that really the result of a milk deficiency?  And do some people start developing the beginnings of these changes, displaying some early evidence of rounding, much earlier? 

People love their pets. Sixty percent of American homes house an animal. Like humans, pets seem to be omni-present in the lives of their caretakers, without an official invitation. Pets often do not know why they are here any more than we do, although we both are sometimes absentmindedly present and dumbfounded, albeit together. Two peas in a pod…