Health and Fitness

Often, women over the age of 60 experience challenges performing everyday tasks. For example, lifting grocery bags or reaching for items in the cabinet requires a greater effort. Although traditional workouts help strengthen your body, functional workouts improve your quality of life and help you complete everyday tasks. The best part?

Hip and knee pain becomes more common with age, and some people may have been told that they “need” to have a joint replacement. Joint replacement surgery removes the worn surfaces of the hip or knee and replaces them with smooth artificial implants, which can relieve pain and restore movement. It works well for many patients and can be life changing…

We are constantly getting health advice from doctors, pharmacists, friends, family, television ads, podcasts, social media influencers and people we have only met online. In fact, I write articles giving you advice about how to think, what to eat and how to live. Perhaps just last week a friend at lunch told you the magnesium she uses fixed her sleep, a television ad…

Not long ago, a friend’s husband told me I was a very beautiful woman. He wasn’t hitting on me. It was simply a lovely compliment, sincerely given. I thanked him, but inside my head, I was thinking: You have no idea how much maintenance this takes now. I may be a little vain. I’m okay admitting that…

This is one of the questions I get asked most often, so let me tell you what I’ve actually seen. After teaching Pilates to hundreds of women – most of them over 50 – here’s the honest answer: yes, it can help. But probably not in the way you’re expecting, and honestly, that’s a good thing…

For much of our lives, we have been told that we need to exercise. The word itself can be intimidating. Exercise sounds like something that requires workout clothes, a gym membership, perspiration, and perhaps a personal trainer urging us to do one more repetition. As we get older, that image can become even less appealing…

Are you someone who enjoys a glass or two of wine every evening? Perhaps you rarely drink during the week but look forward to a few glasses of wine at the weekend. Or maybe alcohol appears only at dinners, celebrations and social occasions. Most of us have no problem justifying our drinking habit. The daily […]

Arthritis literally means joint inflammation, and it refers to a group of more than a hundred rheumatic diseases that cause pain, stiffness, and swelling in the joints. There are two major types of arthritis: osteoarthritis…

We have all had decades at our hands to understand exactly what foods we like to eat. So, keeping Pooh’s point in mind, it should be easy to choose to eat less of what we don’t like. For instance, Leslie enjoys a pasta dinner, but the sauce is the best part…

I catch myself doing it several times a week: mouth open, breathing loud and shallow, as if my body has forgotten everything I’ve spent years teaching other people. The irony isn’t lost on me – I’m a certified Buteyko breathing trainer, and yet I have to catch myself mid-breath and correct course…