Health and Fitness

Incontinence is an initial warning sign that the strength of your pelvic floor is compromised in some way and no longer has the ability to hold the contents of the pelvis. The initial symptom is leaking urine but if left untreated…

Towards the end of my corporate career, I used to spend quite a lot of time dreaming about my retirement. I had a very clear picture in my mind. There I was, sitting in a beautiful garden, reading a good book, with a large glass of chilled white wine beside me. No meetings. No deadlines. No demanding colleagues…

I hear it all the time from women in their 50s, 60s and beyond: ‘I’m so stiff.’ Usually it comes with a shrug and a ‘well, I guess that’s just getting older.’ I’ve been teaching Pilates to women over 55 for more than 10 years, and this is a common misconception. I understand why we blame age. But it’s not what I see…

One of the greatest dangers of growing older is not always illness, financial difficulty, or physical decline. Sometimes it is something much quieter: allowing our world to become smaller and smaller without realizing it. It rarely happens all at once. We stop driving at night…

Hybrid working became common after the pandemic. It’s where you work from the office sometimes and from home the rest of the time. Did you know there’s also such a thing as hybrid exercise? We’ve seen a lot of it over the last year or so…

As the days shorten, the sunny hours become more precious. Taking a sunny afternoon walk, I reflect on everything that happened in the last six months of light, travel and a long hiking season. Did the spring and summer seasons transform me?

For the most part, losing weight is simply burning more calories than you consume. However, experts have turned this simple idea into a very complicated process, which has led to lots of people getting rich with their original ‘new diet’ to lose and keep weight off…

In the United States, cardiovascular disease kills more women than all forms of cancer combined. About one in two women over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis. In 2022, 13.9% of Americans age 65 and older met both the aerobic guideline and the muscle-strengthening guideline in their free time…

Incontinence is more common in adults than many may think. In fact, about half of women (especially women over 50) and one-in-four men experience incontinence symptoms. Despite the prevalence of incontinence as we age, it is not something…

As far back as I can remember, conventional wisdom has been that the higher our HDL cholesterol levels, the less we and our healthcare providers had to be concerned about our ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol levels…