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...Shoptaw says Ashbery disliked that extremely modern "poetry with footnotes" or writing "that you had to bone...
...although older bodies burn fewer calories than younger ones, they actually require bigger helpings of nutrients. Older bodies absorb nutrients from food less efficiently than younger ones. Aging bodies continue to need not just nutrition but also aerobic exercise to preserve cardiovascular health and weight-bearing exercise to prevent bone loss and build muscle...
There are important distinctions between young and aging bodies, of course. At 50 or so, when women reach menopause, the loss of estrogen accelerates the deterioration of bone mass. Nothing so dramatic happens to men at that age, but psychologically it's a good opportunity to get them to modify their diets. It is hard to get a 30-year-old male to change his eating habits to reduce his risk of prostate cancer 20 or 30 years hence. But a 50-year-old, aware that men not much his senior are dying, is more likely to pay attention...
...Bone mass peaks around the age of 20 and declines over the years, so much that elderly bones can fracture easily. The consequences are not merely casts and crutches: about 25% of people with fractures of the hip die within a year because of complications, says Dr. Michael F. Holick, chief of endocrinology, nutrition and diabetes at Boston University medical center, and another 25% spend the rest of their life in nursing homes...
Osteoporosis is thought of as a woman's disease. Women are generally smaller than men and have less bone mass to begin with. They tend to consume less calcium and vitamin D over a lifetime, and in menopause their bodies stop producing bone-protecting estrogen. So when they reach their 70s, many women begin to suffer fractures. Men are not likely to reach that stage until they are in their 80s, and because comparatively few men have lived to be octogenarians, their risk has been more theoretical than real. But as men live longer, osteoporosis will be a major problem...