Antioxidants and Ageing

Contrary to what most people think, the human life span is not steadily increasing. People are certainly living longer but only because they are getting nearer to , or reaching, the normal upper age limit of about 100 years. Life expectancy is increasing because medical and technological advances are enabling an increasing proportion of people to avoid death before reaching the full span. Today, in Western societies, for the first time in history, most people can look forward, with reasonable confidence, to growing old..