Food-Included Weight Loss Programs: Should You Try One?You don't need Jenny, you don't need Nutrisystem, or any other expensive program that provides prepackaged meals. You just need to decide that you can and will do what you need to do to be in charge of your health and your weight. 'Back to Basics' is the only way to go.
Bold Retirement: Will You Be Ready?The traditional senior culture is waiting to embrace retirees who don't plan for the kind of life they want after they leave work. Whether you live boldly or wither away at that time is your choice.
Alzheimer's: Prevent It With Nutrition?Research into dietary supplements to prevent Alzheimer 's disease has been going on for a long time with some very promising results. But that's where it ends: 'Promising results.' Research that produces truly promising results usually dies for lack of funding and lack of support by advocacy organizations.
Cancer: Will There Ever Be a Cure?The pharmaceutical industry doesn't want to find a natural cure for cancer because there is no profit in a cure. Big Pharma makes its money selling products that at best only manage symptoms that are not life threatening but on going. Anyone with high blood pressure is a financial bonanza for the drug companies. Those unfortunate individuals will take profitable 'management medication' until they
I'm In Wrinkle Cream Rehab - Care to Join Me?I'm getting smarter, or maybe my common sense is finally kicking in (it's about time) and I've made a decision not to buy any more new skin creams - regardless of how powerful the advertising. I am now in 'Wrinkle Cream Rehab.' With any kind of luck, I won't relapse.
Your Age Still Matters - Too Much!As wild and wooly as our society has become; as much as it is now the norm to do whatever you want to do, and tradition be damned, when it comes to dealing with age, we are still stuck in the dark ages.
Got Talent? Go for Your Five Minutes of Fame -It's Fun!At age 60 I was a contestant in a Ms. Senior America competition. I knew my chances of winning were slim because among other deficits, I do not sing, dance, twirl a baton or recite poetry. When I shared my shortcomings with the pageant director, she suggested I take acting lessons to acquire some stage presence. She said we would think of something that would qualify as talent.
Powerful Anti-Aging Role Models: More are NeededWhatever age you are now is a good time to take better care of yourself. The younger you are when you start the easier it is. And it's truly helpful if you can find inspiring role models to look to for encouragement.
Boomers: The Choice is Yours -- Growth or RetirementThe benefits of choosing to live each day of your life in a state of youthful growth instead of stultifying retirement are just too outstanding to pass up. Be in that growing number of happy, healthy, productive older people who are reveling in their fulfilling second life.
The Ultimate Anti-Aging Do-It-Yourself Project for BoomersAt 40 or 50, you are NOT middle aged! Remember, in the past century the lifespan has increased by 27 years. Therefore, it no longer makes sense to categorize yourself according to a model that is no longer relevant.
Nine Anti-aging Tips to Stay Younger LongerCan't figure out where to start to improve the quality of your lifestyle? Here are some simple things to help get started. If you can follow the suggestions for a month, you will be well on your way to reducing belly fat AND establishing an anti-aging lifestyle.
Does an Orthodontist Need to Know Your Age?Be fearless. Know when it is appropriate to provide personal information, and when you know it's not necessary, don't cave in. And above all, never reveal your chronological age. If you are pressed to do so, tell your perceived age.
Okay Grizzly Guys, Take it Off -- Take it All OffWhatever happened to neat, clean-shaven men in power suits and ties, who knew they were men, who would rather be dead than be seen wearing feminizing earrings, and necklaces and smelling better than you do. Is that asking too much?
Aging Women and Parenting: The Case for PreparationIt's not news that the 'golden years' of many older people, especially women, are years hijacked by young family members in need of care. It's not just boomers caring for aging parents; it's aging parents caring for children of their boomer aged children who for whatever reason do not care for their own children.
Got White Hair? You Are Senile!When you have white hair, you are perceived as o-l-d. No matter what your face and or body look like, white hair categorizes you in an instant. It tells the world who and what you are, even if you are prematurely gray or white. You are an old person. There is no getting around it.
The Anti-Aging Law of Compensation: You Must Apply ItThe so-called civilized world we live in makes it difficult to maintain youthful attributes and stay healthy. Fast food, pollution, low and non-nutrition processed edibles eaten as food, stress, medications, lack of adequate information and our own negligence contribute to health problems and signs of premature aging. To get around it, you can do one of two things: just let it happen or be on the
Senior Brain Power: Don't Waste YoursYou don't have to become part of a wasted senior generation. You don't have to waste your brain power. They key is to preplan, at least by midlife, to know what you want to do with the rest of your life after you retire.
Aging Gracefully: How Scarlet and Rhett Might Have Done ItIt's clear that 'aging gracefully' means different things to different people. To me, aging gracefully means letting go, just letting life happen. It's giving up goals, dreams, productivity, and challenge. It's placidly waiting for death. You get to a place where, as Rhett Butler would say, 'Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.'
Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy: Is It All Good?Thanks to Suzanne Somers, natural hormone replacement, including estrogen, is gaining acceptance by women. But Board certified internist Dr. Michael E. Platt, M.D.is not happy about Suzanne's promotion of natural estrogen Dr. Platt says estrogen, natural or synthetic, causes six kinds of cancer, and has statistics to back it up.
Be the Star of Your Own Anti-Aging Today ShowThe mental and physical decline that accompanies the aging process - is it inevitable? Or is it a result of cultural influences and how we live? Like perfectly programmed robots we march into old age, fully accepting consensus thinking, archaic tradition, and contemporary cultural norms. It's not necessarily bad - it's the uncritical acceptance of 'this is the way it should be' that seals our fate
Anti-Aging Regimen It Pays OffBeing in control of the aging process is easy with a daily anti-aging regimen. See what I do and start a regimen of your own.
Aging in a Straightjacket? How to Avoid Being OldWant to stay young forever? Yes, you can with the help of one approach to being young that is rarely considered in anti-aging discussion.
Alzheimer's: Why Aren't We Stopping It?Is there a way to prevent Alzheimer's Disease that is being overlooked? Should we wait for the pharmaceutical industry to find a profitable cure, or should we work on prevention? Or should we do both?
Retirement: Living or Just Existing?Retirement is what you make it -- long before you retire. And it's not all about having enough money.
Is This Your Religion?The Religion of Fogeyism is alive and well. Are You a believer?
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