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• In the early 1500s the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon searched what is now Florida seeking a magical fountain of youth that Indians had told him would restore youth to aging people.
• His search, of course, ended in failure.
• Efforts to combat aging and the diseases often accompanying it did not end with Ponce de Leon.
• A distinguished group of gerobiologists (biologists specializing in aging research) analyzed these claims.
• The best available "fountain" gained attention in 1979 when it was estimated that 50 percent of adult deaths in the United States were the result of unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors.
• Since then, health professionals have emphasized the importance for people of all ages to engage in health-promoting behaviors, such as regular exercising and eating nutritious foods.
• The subscales are spiritual growth, interpersonal relations, nutrition, physical activity, health responsibility, and stress management.
• The older group scored significantly higher than the young or middle-aged group on health responsibility and nutrition, and higher than the young group but not the middle-age group for interpersonal relations.
• The older group's physical activity scores were significantly lower than those for the young group, but significantly higher than those for the middle-age group.
• For the total participants the association between scores on each subscale and self-reported health was statistically significant, and did not differ among the age groups.
• What is surprising is that many middle-aged adults appear to live even more sedentary lives.

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