Women who consume moderate amounts of alcohol in middle age are somewhat more likely than teetotalers to be in good physical and mental health in old age, new research finds.

新的研究发现，中年时期保持适度饮酒的女性与滴酒不沾的女性相比，从某种程度上来说，会在晚年拥有更加健康的身心。

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Being past middle age and approaching old age; rather old.

上了年纪的已过中年的，接近老年的，年岁大的。

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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

青年是收获的阶段，中年是提升的阶段，老年是消耗的阶段。

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Until very recently, most of the increase has been due to better survival in childhood and youth, rather than the increased prolongation of middle age into old age.

ECONOMIST: Why women live so long

Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.

WSJ: University of Wisconsin Study Finds Eudaimonic Happiness Lessens the 'Bite' of Risk Factors for Disease

Unlike developing countries, which age from the bottom up because of a falling birth rate, rich countries age from the middle, adding old people with fewer workers to support them, and even fewer children to join the workforce.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus