Health and Fitness

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…

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…