{"id":79721,"date":"2018-06-19T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/sugarcoating-aging-wont-fight-ageism"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:02:24","slug":"sugarcoating-aging-wont-fight-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/sugarcoating-aging-wont-fight-ageism","title":{"rendered":"Sugarcoating aging won\u2019t fight ageism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sugarcoating-aging-wont-fight-ageism2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glossing over the fact ageing is a chronic decline in function won\u2019t help with anything, let alone ending ageism.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At times, I think that I have written enough rejuvenation advocacy articles and that every time I write a new one, I\u2019m just repeating myself. I sometimes say to myself that I\u2019ve written about concerns and misconceptions from so many angles that I\u2019ve probably exhausted all the options. However, from time to time, there comes the bittersweet reassurance that I\u2019m not going to be out of a job any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The culprit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I came across a Refinery29 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2018\/06\/201498\/anti-aging-word-banned-uk\">article<\/a> titled \u201c\u2018Anti-Aging\u2019 Is Officially Being Phased Out\u2014&amp; That\u2019s Good News For Women.\u201d The article summarizes, and wholeheartedly agrees with, a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsph.org.uk\/\">Royal Society For Public Health<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsph.org.uk\/uploads\/assets\/uploaded\/6251de6d-3147-44f5-b9ee3331b1a38bae.pdf\">That Age Old Question<\/a>\u201d. The report endeavors to expose ageism and help end discrimination against older people, but while it does make a handful of valid points, it seems to suggest that sweeping the true nature of aging under the rug will help to end ageism.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/sugarcoating-aging-wont-fight-ageism\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/sugarcoating-aging-wont-fight-ageism\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glossing over the fact ageing is a chronic decline in function won\u2019t help with anything, let alone ending ageism. At times, I think that I have written enough rejuvenation advocacy articles and that every time I write a new one, I\u2019m just repeating myself. I sometimes say to myself that I\u2019ve written about concerns and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79742,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79721\/revisions\/79742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}