{"id":192718,"date":"2026-05-14T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:45:08","slug":"health-beat-engaging-in-the-arts-can-slow-aging-health-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192718\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Beat: Engaging in the arts can slow aging | Health Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing artistic activities may slow biological aging, just like exercising.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a new study published in the journal &#8220;Innovation in Aging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in London found that both the frequency with which people engage in the arts, and the different ways they do so, can slow the aging process.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because those activities include sensory stimulation and social interaction.<\/p>\n<p>The study looked at more than 3,500 people and the strongest correlation was found in adults 40 and older.<\/p>\n<p>One of the study&#8217;s co-authors stressed that it builds on existing research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doing artistic activities may slow biological aging, just like exercising. That&#8217;s according to a new study published in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8484,119,121,120,837,17666,85774,42574],"class_list":["post-192718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-aging","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-self-care","tag-slow-movement","tag-the-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}