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Healthy Body |
The center of aging care is a healthy body. For the boomer generation, raised with the idea of perpetual youth, aging effects reflected in the mirror can be a startling sight. With advances in adult nutrition, seniors fitness, mental health aging, the integration of eastern and western wellness, retirement health no longer has to be an indictment of frailty and decline. A strong and vibrant body will not happen without effort. Retirement Life Matters offers information and discussion about senior citizens health with easy to implement lifestyle choices you can make.
Being able to look in the mirror with acceptance and love is an important aspect of anti aging beauty. Learning how to Dress Your Age will help you project an air of style and grace. What you project on the outside is a reflection with how you feel on the inside. Learn how Anger Affects Your Health. Yoga instructor Maggie Mellor teaches you how to Sleep Like a Baby.
Senior food, based a healthy diet is critical to a youthful body. Retirement Life Matters shifts through the hype to find the very best information to help you make good choices. Did you know Four Changes Can Save Your Life and The Relationship Between Metabolism and Weight Gain?
A healthy body needs physical activity. Exercise has become a four-letter word to many. Retirement Life Matters will demonstrate easy ways to embrace being active and healthy. The Value of Balance isn't about moderation, but about being able to stand on one foot.
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Anger Affects Your Health
All of us feel angry at some point in our lives. You may get irritated by losing out on a job promotion, become upset when your children fight or feel your blood boil when your partner makes a nasty remark. Anger is a normal emotion that ... |
Four Changes That Can Save Your Life
By Cathy Severson, MSIt’s never too late to address senior citizens health. By incorporating four simple lifestyle rules the risk of heart disease could be decreased by 35 percent and the risk of death by 40 percent four years after the changes ... |
Dress Your Age: Fashion for the Mature Woman
Baby boomer women often get frustrated shopping for suitable clothes. With the body aging into a different form, many women find it very difficult to know how to dress. Wearing super short mini skirts and plunging necklines may have been ... |
The Benefits of Facial Exercise
Many of you probably take good care of your health. Seniors are doing more to support natural aging. The senior diet is healthier than in the past. They drink plenty of water and seniors fitness as improved. All of these habits are ... |
Feeling Younger is Being Younger
As you grow older, you may lament your frequent aches and pains. You may start to reminisce about your youth when you could eat whatever you wanted without gaining an ounce or play any sports without feeling like your heart was going to explode ... |
How a Healthy Immune Helps Keep Body Healthy
The human body is amazing when you think about it. You have so many organs with different functions, all working together to keep you healthy. One of the most important factors of natural aging is a healthy immune system. Your immun ... |
Lifetime Fitness
The Center for Disease Control lists the following top five annual causes of death in the United States:* Heart disease: 696,947 deaths* Cancer: 557,271 deaths* Stroke: 162,672 deaths* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,816 deaths* Accidents (un ... |
The Relationship between Metabolism and Weight Gain
You may not know much about the term metabolism, but you may want to learn more when you realize its close connection with weight gain. The two are intrinsically linked. Therefore, learning about your metabolism and how it works can help you ma ... |
Fun For Your Brain
By Nancy Merz NordstromNEW RESEARCH…One of the biggest revelations to come out of the 1990s (a decade of pioneering brain research) was that the human brain undergoes significant physiological change when exposed to new learning and new experiences.& ... |
Tips To Prevent Premature Aging
Wrinkles seem to be a common fact of life for most people as they age. Small lines begin to form around your eyes or deep creases may begin to cover your forehead or your upper lip. Many aging men and women also face dull, lifeless skin.& ... |
5 Tips to Sleep Like a Baby!
By Maggie MellorAre you one of the 70 million adults in this country who thrashes around in bed sometime between 11 pm and 4 am, wide-eyed and desperate? Some folks can’t fall asleep and other can’t stay asleep. What is it that has so many of spendin ... |
How to Survive These Stressful Times Healthfully
By Jeffrey Gero, Ph.D. TODAY’S STRESSORSAlmost everyone’s anxiety level is elevated because of these stressful times, which affect most aspects of our daily life. Many of us are worried about what’s going to happen to us. As many as 80 percent o ... |
How to Slow Body Aging
Your body aging can be difficult emotionally. In fact, stress aging dramatically affects natural aging. Everyone’s body ages differently, but there are many common symptoms as baby boomer women and men are discovering. Before we dis ... |
Does Stress Affect Memory?
Have you ever felt really stressed and started to forget things? You may be having such a hectic day that you forget your car keys on the kitchen counter. Maybe you arrive to your office just in time for an important business meeting, onl ... |
Sugar Bust
By Cathy SeversonI’ve always been pretty smug about my sugar intake. I don’t drink soda as a general rule, unlike my husband who could be called a Pepsiholic. I have become more aware of my body aging. As a result, I’ve made a commitment ... |
Super Foods for a Healthy Body
We all know that certain foods such as potato chips, cake and cookies aren’t good senior food with negative aging effects. Most of us also realize the importance of adult nutrition to keep our weight under control. However, you may not re ... |
The Value of Balance
Balance is very important in everyone’s life. You need to eat a diet that contains items from each food category, and you must maintain a healthy balance between your work and professional life. However, physical balance can be just as im ... |
The Top Items Women Over 50 Should Have in Their Wardrobe
Ed. Over 50 women struggle with fashion trends. The phrase senior fashion sounds like an oxymoron. Sherrie Mathieson, author of two acclaimed style books, shares her top items to ensure women fashion style.By Sherrie Mathieson1. A g ... |
STEAL THIS STYLE: Moms and Daughters Swap Wardrobe Secrets
Ed. Note: Most women struggle with fashion trends throughout there lives. It just seems like our bodies don't match what's for sale in the stores. That difficulty increases as we get older. Author Sherrie Mathieson has written two b ... |
10 Fashion Mistakes Women over 50 Make
Ed. Note. Sherrie Mathieson, author of two acclaimed style books, share fashion mistakes women make. By Sherrie MathiesonWomen over 50 struggle with fashion trends. The phrase senior fashion sounds like an oxymoron. Avoid these fashion mi ... |
A Vibrant Life : Yoga in the Middle Years and Beyond
Editors Note: Felice Rhiannon wrote A Vibrant Life: Yoga in the Middle Years and Beyond. In the book, Felice shares she was bedridden for a year and the role yoga played in healing. Felice participated in the following online interview.&n ... |
Sparkling, Shining, Splendidly Bright
Ed. Note. Is senior fashion an oxymoron? Not according to fashion expert Marianna Ramondetta. Learning how to accessorize is the key to fashion success for women over 50.By Marianna Ramondetta “As you go through li ... |
Your Own Health Team
By Jim DonovanIn my opinion, life is not so much about how long we live, as it is our quality of life for however long we are on this earth. To achieve this, I have created a concept I call “My Health Team.” Rather than put the responsibility for my ... |
Michael Pollan Informs About Healthy Eating
The Botany of DesireOmnivore’s DilemmaIn Defense of Food: an Eater’s ManifestoFood RulesReview by Christa KingYou’ve heard him on NPR or seen him on Oprah. Michael Pollan begins his Eater’s Manifesto by saying “Eat food. Not too much. Mos ... |
Sedentary Lifestyle Leads to Life Changes
By Stephen BourdonIn the spring of 2009, I was stopped in my tracks by a statement that I came across in a novel I was reading:WHEN WE LOOK BACK ON OUR LIVES LATER ON, WE'LL EITHER HAVE WHAT WE WANT OUT OF LIFE, OR WE'LL HAVE THE REASONS WHY WE DON'T ... |
The Couch Potato Diet Plan for You
By Gregory J.E. LadasWhy it is so hard to stay on a diet?I bet you find it difficult like me to stay on diet plans? The popular low-calorie, fat, or carbohydrate (carb) diets of the day ask you to make significant changes in the way you eat. Even the ... |
Leave the Sedentary Life Behind
I'm responding to your request to hear from older people who used to a sedentary life but became active and physically fit. I'm 59 years old. Exactly a year ago (nearly to the day), I went to my cardiologist for my semi-annual checkup. (I have a very ... |
Lifestyle Choices Affects Successful Aging
What contributes to successful aging? Growing older does not have to be a time of decline. The boomers retirement will not be a descent into elderly activities. New senior research reveals that lifestyle choices greatly affect human aging ... |
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