Aging Well Loneliness Money Matters Pets Retirement Spiritual Health Retirement DoesnΓÇÖt Have to Be Lonely: 9 Great Ways to Stay Connected By article Retirement can be a difficult time as you adjust to a new life away from the 9-to-5 grind youΓÇÖre used … Read More→
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_ Weight Loss Work Most Commercial Dieting Programs Don't Work By article Only a few commercial weight-loss programs have shown that their users lose more weight than those not using them, researchers … Read More→
_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition When You Eat May Be As Important As What You Eat By article When you eat may be just as important to heart health as what you eat, according to researchers from San … Read More→
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_ The Great American Smokeout By article The American Cancer Society marks the Great American Smokeout on the third Thursday of November each year by encouraging smokers … Read More→
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Coming Next Week! September 8th to September 12th 2014 By Sondra Forsyth article HereΓÇÖs a sneak preview of the articles, slideshows, and blogs weΓÇÖll be posting during the coming week on ThirdAge, the … Read More→
Coming Next Week! September 8th to September 12th 2014 By Sondra Forsyth article HereΓÇÖs a sneak preview of the articles, slideshows, and blogs weΓÇÖll be posting during the coming week on ThirdAge, the biggest and best site for ΓÇ£boomer and beyondΓÇ¥ women since 1997. As always, weΓÇÖll bring you the latest information from top experts about maintaining a healthy body, mind, and spirit as you navigate both the challenges and the joys of being a ThirdAger.
Preserve the Harvest for Winter Meals and Holiday Gifts By Sondra Forsyth article By Melinda Myers The cucumbers have filled the vegetable drawer, youΓÇÖve run out of cabbage recipes and your family is refusing to eat one more BLT. Or maybe you just couldnΓÇÖt resist that special deal on a bushel of tomatoes, potatoes or apples at the farmerΓÇÖs market. So what is a gardener or shopper to do with all that produce?
_ Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias Brain Health Pomegranate Tx for AD, PD, & RA By Sondra Forsyth article The onset of Alzheimer's disease can be slowed and some of its symptoms curbed by a natural compound that is found in pomegranates, according to the findings of a two-year project headed by scientist Dr. Olumayokun Olajide, at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. Also, the painful inflammation that accompanies illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease could be reduced by the pomegranate drug. The study was published in August 2014 in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research.
_ Pets Vitamins + Supplements Should Your Pet Take Supplements? By Sondra Forsyth article Our pets are like our family, right? Even pet food manufacturers now refer to ΓÇ£pet ownersΓÇ¥ as ΓÇ£pet parentsΓÇ¥ in their marketing! This humanization trend has been fueled by us Baby Boomers who are refocusing our discretionary spending on our pets rather than spending it on feathering our now empty nests. So itΓÇÖs no wonder we ΓÇ£pet parentsΓÇ¥ are now pondering the question of vitamins and other supplementation for Fido and Fluffy. But whatΓÇÖs the real scoop of pet supplements? Good idea or bad?
_ Exercise More Exercise Is Not Always Better By Sondra Forsyth article Did you do about a half hour of exercise today? If so, donΓÇÖt feel guilty about sitting down and putting your feet up ΓÇô especially is if you have heart disease. Working out too much is probably bad for you. ThatΓÇÖs the finding of a study published in August 2014 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. A release from the clinic notes that there is clear evidence of an increase in cardiovascular deaths in heart attack survivors who exercise to excess.