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The onset of middle age can begin as early as 35, according to recent studies made in the United States of America. Research has shown that extreme pressure at work, job insecurity and financial worries can cause the ageing process to start in the early thirties. The bad news is that the trend seems to be speeding up.
The Philips Center for Health and Well-Being in the USA has released a study on the ageing process made among a sample of 1,503 American men and women. According to the report issued last week, the majority of the 35-year-olds who took part in the study said they already felt the weight of middle age.
Economic worries affected eighty per cent of the universe, while health problems affected 75 per cent, both of these factors contributing towards an early process of ageing, resulting in the onset of characteristics of middle age beginning in the mid-thirties.
Denise Para Diniz, in her book Quality of Life, states that "Feeling there is a possibility of losing your job and not being able to afford to pay your child's school fees, or having to cancel that trip you planned a long time ago, certainly causes worry and anxiety". The therapist adds that "And of course this begins to affect other areas of quality of life, causing insomnia, anxiety and even depression". This in turn places a burden on the body and the ageing process begins earlier.
Denise Para Diniz states that the economic recession in the United States of America affected a great number of people in an extremely intense way and admits that this could have contributed towards the results in her study. She states that "from a clinical point of view, I see people in this age group, that of the early thirties, far more worried that they were a few years ago".
The study also revealed that only 39 percent of those who took part in the study considered that they were overweight while in fact other studies show that in the USA, 67 percent of the population is obese or overweight.

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The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters opens at the Royal Academy of Arts on Saturday in London.
The exhibition features 35 letters written by Van Gogh, as well as paintings and drawings reflecting themes in the correspondence. This is the first major exhibition of Van Gogh's work to be held in London since 1968.
Highlights of the exhibition include Self-Portrait As An Artist (1888), The Yellow House (1888), Still-Life: With A Plate Of Onions (1889) and Van Gogh's Chair (1888).
Josien Van Gogh, the great-great-granddaughter of Van Gogh's brother Theo, to whom the artist wrote most of his letters, said it was a very important exhibition.
"To combine the letters with the paintings is wonderful," said Ms Van Gogh, who is also chair of the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation.
"The letters tell us everything about Van Gogh. In his letters he is angry, he is happy, he is sad, he reads a lot. He talks about the weather, things he sees, people he meets, and I think you get to know the person very well."
Willem Van Gogh said growing up knowing the artist as a relative was a "very normal" part of their lives.
"I remember very well that when I visited houses of friends they would have reproductions of the Sunflowers on their walls, I would think 'oh, he is a relative of mine'.
"When you get older you get to appreciate it a lot more that he was so special and extraordinary. Sometimes for me it is breathtaking to look at his paintings, and some of the paintings here I have never seen before."
Curator Ann Dumas said: "Van Gogh is obviously extremely famous as a painter but less well known is that he was a talented writer and a prolific letter writer.
"The letters are extremely revealing. He writes in great detail about individual works of art, he often includes sketches of works of art that he had recently completed to give his correspondent, usually his brother Theo, an idea of his latest work.
"We discover a very different Van Gogh from the one of popular myth that he was just a crazy artist who cut off his ear and eventually killed himself. Although both of those facts are true, what comes out of the letters is that he was a very thoughtful, very reflective man, very highly educated and a phenomenal reader.
"His letters are full of fascinating reflections about art and life, as well as much more detailed information about how he was teaching himself to be an artist and about how he thought about and made his works of art."