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sarcopenia (muscle wasting) sarcopenia (muscle wasting) articles
Spring Into Your Autumn Years
People with a positive attitude toward aging can adjust very well when individual circumstances change. Their positive outlook allows them to adapt to the inevitable physical and biochemical changes of the body that are associated with the natural processes of aging. With a healthy outlook on the golden years, even unpredictable setbacks and disabilities can be managed successfully.
Muscle Weakness
Unused muscles due to injury or *convalescence will not only lose strength, but their shape and weight fairly quickly. Muscle weakness often accompanies exhaustion experienced during the flu or with *chronic fatigue syndrome.
Sarcopenia
Grey hair, wrinkles, and poor eyesight–these signs of aging come on gradually but noticeably. The most profound change, however, creeps up on most of us unnoticed. It’s the slow, unrelenting loss of skeletal muscle, called sarcopenia (vanishing flesh).