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Health and Wellbeing

Good health and living a healthy lifestyle are what most of us want but don’t always achieve. Let’s keep it in mind as we live these great years of our lives.

Articles

  • Reinvention Secrets of a Silver Yogi May 18, 2020
    Anne Noonan changed her life when she discovered the benefits of yoga and healthy living while seeking to overcome poor health and stress while working in a corporate environment. Now she leads other women towards good health and vitality.
  • The Health and Fitness Benefits Of Lifting Weights April 19, 2020
    Why Older People Need The Benefits Of Lifting Weights Are you aware of the amazing health and fitness benefits of lifting weights?  There is no doubt that strength training benefits ageing bodies. The first paragraph of this article by our guest author, Anna Kucirkova, sums up the way I have always felt about weight training at a ...
  • Hiding Behind A Mask: Facial Palsy November 18, 2019
    Sometimes life has a way of reminding us that we are fairly powerless and inconsequential. Bilateral Facial Palsy Eleven days ago I suddenly developed a facial palsy.  It looks like Bells Palsy, which I had about ten years ago, but it has impacted both sides of my face.  This set off alarm bells for the doctors as ...
  • 5 Tips for Baby Boomers on How to Stay Healthy August 12, 2019
    How to Stay Healthy As you get older, it gets much easier for those minor aches and pains to build up and break you down. There’s no shame in it. We live decades longer today than we used to thanks to modern medical breakthroughs. But a longer life doesn’t always automatically mean a healthier one. The ...
  • The Money Making Scandal That Is Obesity March 19, 2019
    Originally published as ‘Obesity – it’s a money making scandal’ by Dr Shirley MD, republished with the author’s permission. I was in a pharmacy the other day on behalf of a patient, and as I was waiting for the script I wandered among the many shelves of weight loss products.  It’s big business these days with ...
  • Do You Need Home Care For Aging Parents? May 24, 2018
    The baby boomer generation is fast becoming caregivers to one or both aging parents. This has become the new norm for some 45 million Americans, not to mention tens of millions more in the UK, Australia, and other English-speaking western countries. It is often the women who carry the heaviest care-giver load. With people living longer ...
  • Stress Relief Strategies For Baby Boomers May 23, 2018
    We all get stressed, and the tendency to get stressed can get worse as you get older, so it’s good to have some good stress relief strategies you can use when you need them. Stress is like a heavy backpack that we lug around. It is our companion from the day we land on this planet, ...
  • What Baby Boomers Always Wanted To Know About Living To 100 May 23, 2018
    Are you planning on living to 100? There are actually around 450,000 centenarians in the world, 72,000 of them in the US. Longevity, is about a whole slew of factors. Genes naturally play a role.  So do the armies of free radical agents that rummage inside of us. Other factors include antioxidants, exercise and nutrition, ...
  • A Program to Help Prevent Osteoporosis with Exercise May 26, 2017
    A disease without any symptoms, osteoporosis affects about 20 percent of men and 80 % of women. As the bones gradually become weaker, they are more likely to break in a minor fall or, if left untreated, even from simple things like a sneeze.The most typical fracture sites can be hip, wrist and spine, although any ...
  • Caring for Aging Parents: How to Make Life Easier for Yourself and Your Parents April 12, 2015
    It often begins with the little things that are barely noticeable for a time. You find your mom or dad has trouble reading the label on their prescription medications or has a struggle trying to rise from a soft chair. They may develop a more shuffling gait to accommodate stiff joints that refuse to move ...
  • Bone Density and Ageing March 19, 2015
    Over time bones lose density, they become brittle and breakable. The cause of this can be bad nutrition, deficient nutrients, Peri-menopause, Andropause and ageing in general. Osteoporosis is one of the most common bone diseases. For a long time it was considered predominantly a woman’s disease. But no longer. Many men also suffer from Osteoporosis. As ...
  • Caring for Older Parents: 5 Tips for Balancing Decision-Making and Keeping Sibling Relationships Intact February 25, 2015
      Elder care is growing concern around the world, with many older people needing assistance to live their lives with dignity. With more and more people living well into their eighties and nineties, those well past middle age will have to endure the emotionally wrenching experience of making tough decisions about elderly parent care. It’s at ...
  • How to Regain Your Confidence: Build a Success Mindset October 31, 2014
    Build a Success Mindset Having a success mindset is about believing, deep in your core, that you are a successful person, and that you can achieve anything you set your heart and mind to.  A success mindset enables you to see opportunities and make the most of them in a positive way.  To effectively make a ...
  • How to Regain Your Confidence: Courage and Wisdom October 31, 2014
    Face Challenges With Courage And Wisdom Making the decision to take a new direction in life requires courage, and making a smooth change requires wisdom, clarity and strategy. Anyone who chooses to change their everyday life, be it for a new job, a new business or a new lifestyle will face challenges, and this does not get easier ...
  • How to Regain Your Confidence: Face Your Fears October 29, 2014
    Regain your confidence by facing your fears Confidence is critical, but when you are experiencing problems and want to make changes in your life it is common to temporarily misplace your belief in yourself. Sometimes, just when you most need it, your confidence is at an all-time low. The key here is to recognise the sources ...
  • How to Regain Your Confidence When It’s Been Shattered October 29, 2014
    How’s your mojo? Do you need to regain your confidence? It’s funny how, when you are younger, you presume that older people really have their act together. You might have considered them stuck in their ways or old-fashioned, but I’ll bet it never occurred to you that they may be lacking confidence. Certainly I doubt you considered ...
  • Healthy Feet vs My Hobbit Feet October 17, 2013
    My Hobbit Feet don’t meet the ideal requirements for healthy feet I’ve always hated my feet.  One of my relatives (who only got away with it because his are similar) once described them as Hobbit Feet and that’s how I always think of them….short, sturdy, broad, with stubby toes (even a bit hairy if left unchecked). My flirtation ...
  • Taking Palpitations to Heart: The Arrhythmia of Life September 17, 2013
    My body may be telling me that I’m no spring chicken, but in my mind I’m still about 41.  Why 41 you may ask?  I’ve no idea except that it was a good age to be, a time when I felt fulfilled and content with family, friends and life in general. I sometimes wonder if it ...
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