During adulthood, hair begins to turn gray and thins, the skin becomes drier and more wrinkled, and as fat is redistributed, the shape of the body begins to change. These changes, along with those that take place in vision and hearing, trigger a process of self-examination that culminates in transforming one's self-perception. The growing preocupation for the way the body looks and functions affects an adult's self-esteem and consequently, their behaviour. In this paper, we will try to prove that the fisical changes during this stage of life many times derive in an increase of fitness-care (?) activities (attending the gym, etc).

Although body image is a complex construct which includes all of how we see, think and feel about our whole bodies, in contemporary society the major focus has become weight. This is not surprising when the current beauty ideals for women emphasise thinness, and thinness equals attractiveness. However, most of the research on body image has been conducted with high school or university students and consequently samples have been restricted to a narrow age range in the teens and ear

A number of studies have uniformly found similar high levels of body dissatisfaction (current substantially larger than ideal) for women across various age groups (6). Sometimes older men also display body dissatisfaction, but significantly less than women.

To investigate age changes properly we need to trace the same individuals over time in longitudinal studies.

The lifestyle factors. During the last 25 years, there has been a number of studies, in which the lifes of thousends of people had been followed, observating their lifestyles and the incidence this has on their sicknesses and deaths. This studies reveal that more than the half of deaths have a direct relation to the people's lifestyles, and not with their age.

ly 20s. This paper presents a brief overview of the key findings from pre-existing research and our own, which includes adults.

Several large-scale surveys of body image have now included older women up to the age of 75. These find substantial levels of body dissatisfaction, with more than 70% of women aged 30-74 wishing to be thinner even though most were of normal weight; (2) and nearly one half of women aged 18 to 70 reporting preoccupation with being or becoming overweight and wholesale displeasure with their weight, lower torso (hips, buttocks, thighs and legs) and mid-torso (waist and stomach) (3). In the largest survey to date, of the readership of the magazine Psychology Today (over 3000 women and 500 men aged 13-90 years), Garner and Kearney-Cooke (4) report very high levels of body dissatisfaction for women. Whereas the overwhelming majority of dissatisfied women want to lose weight, men who are dissatisfied appear to be more evenly divided between those who wish to lose, and those who wish to gain, weight.

One of the first signs of this disease an adult has is when they cannot listen to the doorbell or the phone ring at the distance. This usually happens by the age of 40. Fortunately, most hearin diseases have an easy solution. For a start, the person needs to adapt him/herself to the society, by asking others to speak louder, or adjusting the audio level in appliances. For even more critical auditive loss, small artefacts have been invented to amplyfie sound. It is easier for adults to adapt to society nowadays.

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