Senior Health News | 8 Tips for Preventing Chronic Diseases
When you’re in good health, your senior years can be a time for relaxation, discovery, and enjoying the fruits of a life well-lived. But living with a chronic illness can take away a lot of your time and energy. The risk of developing a chronic disease increases with age, and...
Sharpen your pencils
Sharpen your pencils, Sharpen your mind! What’s black and white, and healthy for you? A crossword puzzle! What was once just a great Sunday afternoon pastime has now been shown to produce real benefits for our cognitive health. In addition to being fun, the top three reasons why you should...
Nutrition
Changing Diets as We Age Whether we’re 8 or 80, a healthy diet is a key to a healthy life. Maintaining the proper balance of all the food groups keeps our bodies functioning at peak efficiency. As we age, our nutritional needs change. Luckily, we can keep our bodies fine-tuned...
Memory Assessment
Is It Forgetfulness or Something Else? We’ve all lost our keys, or forgotten to take the garbage out. Everyone gets into a bind when they can’t remember the name of a person they met last week, or why they walked into the bedroom just now. Our lives are busy, we’ve...
Healthy eating
Making good diet choices With all of the diet and nutritional ads in the media these days, it’s difficult to know just exactly what you should and should not be eating to stay healthy. Lining the grocery shelves are labels screaming gluten free, diary free, nut free, soy free, grain...
Flu Signs You Can’t Ignore
It is almost impossible to turn on the TV, or open a magazine, and not see the headlines ‘Worst Flu Season Ever”. Currently rampant in all 50 states, this year’s flu season started earlier, is lasting longer, and has been responsible for more deaths than any recent year. As of...
Exercise Tips
Exercise Tips Embracing Fitness – Changing our Internal Dialogue We all know that a balanced fitness program is important to maintain, but how many of us really do it? Between our busy lives and the daily aches and pains, we associate with aging, going to the gym slips further and...
Cold Weather Tips
Stay Warm When It’s Cold 2018 certainly started with a bang! Or maybe more like a frozen popsicle! Temperatures across the country have plummeted to record lows; even our good friends in Jacksonville, FL saw snow! It’s enough to make a person want to huddle down under some warm blankets...
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