How to Maintain an Active Lifestyle if You Have Knee Arthritis?
The use of medications in the treatment of arthritis has been the treatment recommendation along with recommendation for increasing or maintaining activity. Unfortunately, many remain under the belief that exercise therapy…
Read MoreKeep Moving to Protect Your Memory and Cognitive Skills
The health benefits of being active, such as reducing stress, managing our weight, and reducing hypertension, cannot be overlooked. One benefit that is getting more attention is the role being physically active plays in helping protect both…
Read MoreYoung Women Over 60: Stay Physical and Work on Preventing Dementia
Prevention is the only available ‘treatment’ for the mind-robbing diseases of cognitive decline and dementia. In fact, prevention of dementia is just as important as preventing other common chronic conditions…
Read More5 Powerful Reasons to Embrace the Unexpected After 60
If you’re like me, life seems perfect when there is a manageable routine. I’m not a stick-in-the-mud, but I like it when I can plan ahead, when I know how my day is going to go and when I feel confident about the tasks on my to-do list…
Read MoreStep Away from the Easter Calories and Nobody’s Waist Line Gets Hurt
This is how they get us: they go one of three ways. First, your standard chocolate companies transform chocolate, sugar, nuts and/or marshmallows into darling shapes like bunnies, chicks, and lambs…
Read More10 Things You Can Do to Keep Your Bones Healthy and Strong After 60 (Recipes)
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Remember that famous line? It was in a TV commercial years ago, and though it has since been used in countless stories, jokes, and memes, it still relates to a serious issue…
Read MoreHow to Get an Authentic Travel Experience in Italy
Authentic travel. We’re all talking about it but what exactly makes a trip authentic? And more to the point, is it really possible to find authenticity on a fleeting one- or two-week holiday – and particularly if we’re partial to a touch of luxury?
Read More4 Essential Knee Exercises to Make Climbing Stairs Easier and Pain-Free
You are standing at the bottom of that dreaded staircase once again. All you want is that maroon blouse from the armoire in the attic. Why would climbing 13 six-inch elevations feel like surmounting Mount Everest…
Read MoreWhy the Cycle of Overeating Is a Game-Changer When We’re Losing after 50
My new plan was to train my brain to embed healthier eating habits. And as I did, it became glaring to me that while we’re constantly admonished to “eat this, not that,” the so-called experts know little about how our powerful brains affect overeating…
Read MoreRethinking the New Year’s Resolution
By now, we’ve accepted that whatever grandiose plans we made on January 1st are not working out. But we are not alone. According to U.S. News & World Report, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail, and most people lose their resolve by mid-February…
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