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Nutritional Action Plan for Aging Well
While you are focused on staying healthy and avoiding the coronavirus right now, don't neglect the importance of your diet. In today's society, diet is synonymous with weight-loss. However, you should focus on the nutrients you need to keep your immune system performing at its best, staying resilient, and ward...
Longevity and aging well
When I was a kid, I was really into vampire movies. The idea that you could live forever captured my imagination. I bring this note about my childhood to you because this post is about living longer, I mean way longer than our current life expectancy, which is the longest...
Reduce Stress for a Happier Retirement
Stress, quite literally, rots us from within. The chronic stress that is accepted as part of living in our modern world is, among other adverse effects, destructive to our cognitive function, and raises our risk of dementia. One of the primary stressors is the belief that we can effectively multitask...
Facing a Challenge
As we age, we are likely to encounter problems, everything from arthritis to cancer to heart disease. But facing a challenge does not mean you’ve failed. For example, getting cancer, or heart disease, or even cognitive impairment, doesn’t mean it’s your fault. It just means you must deal with it...
Never Act Your Age!
Dr. Ellen Langer, a Harvard University researcher, conducted a now famous study back in the late seventies. Using older men as subjects, she immersed them in an environment from twenty years earlier. Room trappings were from the fifties. Conversation about fifties-era topics was in the present tense. Recorded radio programs...
You Have a Choice!
The cat's out of the bag and there's no going back. Your grandmother's belief that how she ages was primarily determined by genes and a little bit of luck, well, that belief has gone the way of the eight-track player. According to the MacArthur Foundation's 10-year study on aging, approximately...