Can We Slow The Ageing Process?

When we're children each year seems an eternity – yet once we become adults the years accelerate, and we worry about getting old, sometimes dreading physical and mental deterioration.
Improved nutrition and medical advances mean that human beings are living longer. Some scientists now believe that a 'normal' life span may actually be approaching 100 years.
Longevity is of little advantage if not linked to an optimum quality of life. More and more emphasis is being put on research into what causes us to grow old; what makes our human machinery break down and what, if anything, we can do to slow this process. Increasingly, it appears that vitamin supplements, specifically vitamins E, A and C, may well be part of the answer.
Research has shown that some ageing processes are hereditary and others involve ageing mechanisms within certain body organs. These we cannot alter, but there are other things which happen to our cells which we can do something about. In fact, a staggering forty per cent of the factors which affect life expectancy can be controlled.