Increase your harvest without increasing the size of your garden or workload. All you need is a bit of intensive planting, along with some low maintenance techniques. Invest some time upfront to prepare the garden soil. This will save you time throughout the growing season. Add several inches of organic matter and a slow release… Continue reading Low Maintenance Vegetable Gardening for a Bountiful Harvest
Author: Sondra Forsyth
Sondra Forsyth is Co-Editor-in-Chief of ThirdAge.com. She is a National Magazine Award winner with scores of major magazine bylines and twelve books to her credit. Her most recent book is “Candida Cleanse: The 21-Day Diet to Beat Yeast and Feel Your Best”. Sondra was Executive Editor at “Ladies’ Home Journal,” Features Editor at “Cosmopolitan,” and Articles Editor at “Bride’s”. A former ballerina, she founded Ballet Ambassadors, an arts-in-education company in New York City, and served as Artistic Director for 16 years.
AFib May Affect Walking and Strength in Older Adults
When older people develop atrial fibrillation — the most common type of irregular heartbeat – the condition accelerates age-related declines in walking speed, strength, balance, and other aspects of physical performance. That is the finding of research published in April 2016 in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, an American Heart Association journal. A release from the… Continue reading AFib May Affect Walking and Strength in Older Adults
Top Tips for Surviving Allergy Season
Remove pollen covered clothing as soon as you get home. Bag garments or deposit them in your mud or laundry room as soon as you walk in the door. Do the same with shoes to avoid tracking allergenic contaminants into your home. Use a high quality air purifier with a true HEPA filter at home… Continue reading Top Tips for Surviving Allergy Season
Beware of Binge-Watching Negative News
According to the Mayo Clinic, media coverage of tragic events happens almost immediately and continues for days. While being informed is important, there are risks associated with compulsive viewing of reports such as those that came out of Brussels after the bombing on March 22nd 2016.. “You can kind of be bombarded by the news,” says… Continue reading Beware of Binge-Watching Negative News
Greek Dancing Improves Jumping Ability of Elderly Heart Failure Patients
As a thirdAGE visitor, you probably remember the sirtaki danced in the 1974 movie “Zorba, the Greek”. Now a study done at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece has shown Greek dancing improves the jumping ability of elderly patients with heart failure. The research was published April 15th in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. Patients… Continue reading Greek Dancing Improves Jumping Ability of Elderly Heart Failure Patients
The New Lexicon of Healthcare: Terms for the 21st Century of Wellness
Weekend warriors dedicated to fitness for play and performance are beginning to see the signs of aging wear and tear. Osteoarthritis can cause pain to crucial areas like elbows, hips, knees and back. Advances in healthcare are giving new options and alternatives to surgery. This next generation of medicine is integrative bringing all medical modalities to… Continue reading The New Lexicon of Healthcare: Terms for the 21st Century of Wellness
Questions over Safety of Whole Body Electrical Stimulation
It’s time to regulate the use of whole body electrical stimulation, argue doctors in a paper published March 30th 2016 in The BMJ. The physicians had treated several people for muscle damage from that procedure. According to a release from the publishers, whole body electrical stimulation (ES) has recently emerged as an alternative form of… Continue reading Questions over Safety of Whole Body Electrical Stimulation
Ease into Gardening with a Raised Bed
Raise your garden to new heights for easier access and greater productivity. Raised beds allow you to overcome poor soil by creating the ideal growing mix, plus make gardening time more comfortable thanks to less bending and kneeling. Whether you purchase a kit or build your own, there are a few things to consider when… Continue reading Ease into Gardening with a Raised Bed
Solve the Medical Riddle: She Has a Fever, Nausea, Neck Pain, and a Headache, Third Week
Editor’s note: Welcome to our thirdAGE feature that gives you a chance to play medical sleuth as we share the details of what happened when a patient presented with a problem that stumped the physician at first. The first week of this riddle, the patient reported her symptoms to her PCP. The doctor proceeded with… Continue reading Solve the Medical Riddle: She Has a Fever, Nausea, Neck Pain, and a Headache, Third Week
New Heart Disease Screening Target for Middle-Aged Black Women
Middle-aged black women have higher levels of a protein in their blood associated with a predictor of heart disease than their white counterparts, even after other factors such as obesity are taken into consideration. That is the finding of a study conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and School of… Continue reading New Heart Disease Screening Target for Middle-Aged Black Women
In Search of a Good Egg
What makes a good egg? Cage-free. All natural. Antibiotic-free. Pasture-raised. What’s the difference? With the myriad eye-grabbing copy printed on egg cartons, it can be hard to parse health benefit from marketing ploy. While some of the nomenclature is part of highly regulated government certifications, much is subject to minimal scrutiny… giving an illusion of… Continue reading In Search of a Good Egg
Coffee Consumption Linked to Decreased Risk of Colorectal Cancer
Whether you like your coffee black, decaf, half-caff or even instant, feel free to drink up. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of Keck Medicine of USC have found that coffee consumption decreases the risk of colorectal cancer. The study appeared in the April 1st, 2016 issue of Cancer… Continue reading Coffee Consumption Linked to Decreased Risk of Colorectal Cancer
3 Ways to Lift Your Mood.
Posture is not just important in how you look. It’s also important in how you look at life. Think of all the sayings that correlate the way you look to how you feel – feeling down, eyes downcast, keep your chin up, hold your head high – your posture reflects your mood. Tired and grumpy,… Continue reading 3 Ways to Lift Your Mood.
Clinicians Should Avoid Prescribing Compounded Hormones
A new Scientific Statement issued on April 1st 2016 by the Endocrine Society in Boston advises clinicians to avoid using compounded hormone medications to treat menopausal symptoms, female sexual dysfunction, and other hormone conditions. The state was published in the Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. According to a release from the society, these… Continue reading Clinicians Should Avoid Prescribing Compounded Hormones
Humanely Raised Meat – Better for You, Better for the World
Nowadays more of us are thinking about both the unhealthy chemicals and ingredients in the meat that we eat as well as whether the animals we consume have been humanely raised. But it is confusing out there in the grocery aisle. What you’ll find is a lot of “greenwashing” going on, which is when manufacturers… Continue reading Humanely Raised Meat – Better for You, Better for the World
The 6 Tools of High Performance Medicine You Need to Know About
Anyone who needs to be in peak shape to do their job – whether it’s on a football field, basketball court or in the boardroom takes health seriously. Find out what medical treatments high performers from athletes to celebrities are turning to in order to stay in the game. The doctors at the Los Angeles… Continue reading The 6 Tools of High Performance Medicine You Need to Know About
Curcumin May Help Overcome Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Research done in March 2016 at the University of Colorado and published in the journal Respirology indicates that curcumin — a substance in turmeric that is best known as one of the main components of curry powder — may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis. In Asia, turmeric is used to treat many health conditions and it… Continue reading Curcumin May Help Overcome Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Tooth Loss Increases Risk of Reduced Cognitive Function
Best to do everything you can to keep the choppers if you want to stay lucid as you age! The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) published an article in March 2016 titled “Tooth Loss Increases the Risk of Diminished Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” The study appeared in the OnlineFirst… Continue reading Tooth Loss Increases Risk of Reduced Cognitive Function