What You Can Do to Ensure a Future For Your Children and Grandchildren By blog The Northern California fires have hit close to home. One of the employees of our local hospital lost his house […]
Aging Well Grandparenting Older Adults Possess Important Forms of Expertise By article Just in time for GrandparentsΓÇÖ Day 2015, coming up on September 13th, researchers at Chapman University in California published an … Read More→
Gardening Anyone? By blog My first garden was in third grade. We started tomato seeds in class and I brought the four-inch high plants […]
_ Mental & Emotional Health 3 Reasons A Balanced Life Is A Better LifeΓÇ¿ By Jane Farrell article Life sometimes can seem off kilter as responsibilities mount and people plow all their physical and mental resources into what … Read More→
Money Matters How Money Wise Are You?ΓÇ¿ By article Women control half of the wealth in the United States, yet studies have shown that many of them are convinced … Read More→
_ Travel How to Have A Safe (and Healthy) Road Trip By Jane Farrell article Road tripping for the summer? Road trips can be a fun and cost-effective way to spend time with family and … Read More→
Waiting for Marriage By blog I just heard about some new research that asks why millennials are waiting to get married. The reasons seem to […]
Five Ways to Enjoy a Pain-Free Vacation By blog YouΓÇÖve looked forward to it all yearΓǪresearched, planned and anticipated. ItΓÇÖs finally here ΓÇô vacation time! And youΓÇÖre determined not […]
_ Money Matters Retirement Is Retirement Cancer of the Soul? By article Is retirement the American Dream? Or the promise that those now under forty will never see fulfilled? Or is the … Read More→
Aging Well HowΓÇÖs Your Health? Daily Habits vs. Genetics By article I was having lunch at a restaurant and I overheard some older folks talking about their health. The conversation was … Read More→
_ Aging Well Exercise Senior Health Running Keeps You Young By Jane Farrell article Seniors who run regularly can walk as efficiently as 20-somethings, according to a study done at the University of Colorado … Read More→
Our Manic Depressive World: What Do Testosterone and Cortisol Have to Do With It? By blog Have you noticed that we seem continually to go through huge ups and downs in our lives? Our economy goes […]
_ The Global Alzheimer's Crisis: Are You Ready to Take Action? By article By Nancy Wurtzel IΓÇÖve been surrounded by AlzheimerΓÇÖs disease my whole life. Decades ago, both of my grandmothers had the … Read More→
_ Mental & Emotional Health Risky Work Scenarios Make Women Anxious & Less Competent By Sondra Forsyth article Risky situations at work increase anxiety for women and hurt their job performance, according to a study done at Stanford University and presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2014 in San Francisco. On the other hand, study author Susan R. Fisk found that anxiety did not raise anxiety levels for men and that menΓÇÖs job performance was unaffected.
_ Pain Management NIH Proposes Standards for Back Pain Research By Sondra Forsyth article Standardized research methods are needed to make greater progress toward reducing the high burden and costs of chronic low back pain, according to a National Institutes for Health Task Force report published in the June 15th 2014 issue of the journal Spine.
Fibromyalgia Awareness By blog May 12th was Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. I marked that day by introducing my new project, 101 Answers About Fibromyalgia. This project is dedicated not only to those who have fibromyalgia, but to those who love people who have fibromyalgia. The goal is to collect at least 101 questions about the condition and gather the answers from different experts around the world. Regular visitors to my blog know that I've written about fibromyalgia before, both here and for other outlets.
Grounding (Earthing): The Easiest Way to Fight Stress By blog We all know that the world is becoming more stressful every day. We worry about the economy, another war in a place we’ve never heard of, our parents getting old and dying, the well-being of our children, our own health. Sometimes it seems like our lives are one endless series of stresses. The bad news is that stress is on the rise and it’s causing major problems for many of us. The good news is that there are simple ways to combat stress and get back in control of our lives.
_ Aging Well More Proof Protein Is Good as We Age By Sondra Forsyth article On March 5th 2014, I posted an item on ThirdAge.com that dealt with the misleading title of a press release that went viral: “Meat and cheese may be as bad as smoking”. The study the release referred to actually showed that for people over 65, animal protein is protective.