{"id":3866,"date":"2008-06-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:52:09","slug":"exercise-and-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3866","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and older adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <strong>NY Times<\/strong>. A very good article with useful links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/24\/health\/24brod.html?em&amp;ex=1214452800&amp;en=169fe5ff8c99a416&amp;ei=5087%0A\"><font color=\"#800080\">Personal Health &#8211; Exercise Guidelines for the Elderly &#8211; Personal Health &#8211; Jane Brody &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fact: The number of people over 100 doubles every decade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fact: As they age, people lose muscle mass and strength, flexibility and bone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fact: The resulting frailty leads to a loss of mobility and independence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times. A very good article with useful links Personal Health &#8211; Exercise Guidelines for the Elderly &#8211; Personal Health &#8211; Jane Brody &#8211; NYTimes.com Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60. Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65. Fact: The number of people over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}