We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.


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I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW
My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL
We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY
I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN