This amazing video shows a time lapse of the aging process for a boy and girl age from childhood all the way to old age.

So how do we get to be elderly? It doesn't happen as fast as this video, thank goodness, but we can certainly work to live a healthy lifestyle so that we can have successful aging. With continuing aging research more and more of us will be able to live more independently as we age.

Still even though we dread aging, the process is fascinating when you can virtually view it over several seconds rather than years.

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