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Popular Articles On Health and Fitness for Baby Boomers
Benefits of Walking for Fitness
As a "boomer", you might notice that the hop skip and a jump you used to have back in your teens and early 20's has somehow vanished to never-never land. Ripping off a 2 or 3 mile run without breaking...
Forget Positive Thinking - Use Power Of Giving Up
If you have an incurable disease, forget positive thinking. Instead abandon hope and have fun. Dr Bernie Siegel hated telling cancer patients that they had only six months to live. He usually...
Make Sleepless Nights a Thing of the Past by Using Meditation to Cure Insomnia
Most people who have insomnia realize there are often medical reasons that cause people to have insomnia. Many people do not realize that your own thoughts can be playing a big part in your sleepless...
Yoga is a therapy for the mind and the body. Practicing yoga daily can help alleviate everyday tensions, stresses and ailments. There are not any restrictions as to who can practice yoga and who...
When we are young, we are often told what great exercise cycling can be. But what about senior cycling? Is it safe, or is it too much of a strain as we get older? First let's be clear that when...
Sleep Disorders, Your Worst Enemy
Poor sleep, caused by sleep disorders, isn't just a natural part of aging that you can afford to ignore. Your very health and your life, itself, are at risk. If you don't believe it or you think...
One of the things that makes golf very difficult is that it requires your entire body perform a very specific task. Although the swing involves many muscles, exactly which ones play what part is...
How To Avoid Malnutrition Of The Elderly
Are you thinking about sending your ageing parents to a hospital or retirement village so as to make sure that they eat well? Don't! Malnutrition of the elderly, like me, only occurs in four percent...
Is It Possible to Prevent Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis has always been a difficult condition to deal with. For one thing, it has no symptoms so it's often difficult to spot. Quite often it's hereditary, and is caused by a lack of minerals...
Why I'll Never Join Any Retirement Golf Communities
Retirement golf communities are definitely not for me. They may be a good for of exercise, but what have you achieved at the end of the day? Well...you may have lost a few ounces and a few golf...
Skin Cancer-Educate Yourself To The Risks And Prevention
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. While it is not the most sever form of cancer, the fact it is the most common makes it something everyone should learn about...
Taking your walk off the road and onto a trail is an excellent way to stretch your walking beyond an hour. How fast or how far you hike, or whether you climb a specific hill is not that important...
Top 10 Benefits of Swimming for Seniors
The longer we can remain physically active as we age, the longer we will be able to live enjoyable and productive lives. Unfortunately, high impact exercise can have a detrimental impact on the...
Increase Your Immune System With Vitamin C
If you are looking for a vitamin that increases your immune system and helps prevent many diseases, then vitamin C a good choice. I believe it is pretty common knowledge that it can be found in...
Does the vaccination scam still have you fooled? One Australian doctor said that doctors who lie to their patients to encourage vaccination have patients who choose not to go back to them because...
Tennis elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is the most common injury patients seek medical attention for when experiencing elbow pain. Doctors are unsure what exactly causes tennis elbow;...
Identifying the Cause and Choosing the Right Treatment for Insomnia
With all of the medical advances that have been made over the past hundred years insomnia is still an issue with 10 to 15 percent of all adults and closer to 25 percent of adults who are 65 and...
A friend recently asked me and a few other friends if we would be her guinea pigs for her practice sessions for yoga! She is learning the whole practice of YOGA and knowing that she would be a...
Alleviate Your Snoring and Don’t Let it Damage Your Life
Is your life and marriage being threatened by snoring? You can put an end to your misery. You need to be aware of the cause of your snoring otherwise you might not be able to change it. People...
Would cheaper natural health food help your retirement plans? Do you know that processed food is slowly poisoning you but you don't know how to cook? Perhaps you are cooking some food, but you...