APSY2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Neurofibrillary Tangle, Sedentary Lifestyle

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2242
• Professor: Julia Whitcavitch Devoy

Document Summary

Things in the environment - free radicals - bounce into cells. Young cells can resist and repair damage. All of our genes have a certain amount of time they can replicate. Fixed amount of replications of cellular functions. Strands at end of dna that start to wear down and move inward as you age. Length related to amount of time spent in leisure activities and activity/health level. Reduced calorie diets linked to longer lifespans as long as still getting all of nutrition. Less elastic eyes - harder to focus. Taste and smell - tastes change, willingness to eat changes. Above (cid:1152) are over the healthy bmi. Obese or extremely obese has increased over past 4 decades. Stress level - more stress=more cortisol which influences metabolism. Less sleep - not as good at metabolizing. Walls of heart thicker, less able to facilitate blood flow. Ability to fight off new infections and ability to create antibodies declines.