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Popular Articles On Health and Fitness for Baby Boomers
How Calcium Helps In The Preventiuon And Treatment of Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is painless - at least until some of your bones are broken, in particular your hip bone, which can be extremely painful. Low bone density can occur in any of us, but it is particularly...
Meditation to Cure Insomnia - Believe It
One of the mysterious facts of insomnia is: your mind feeds insomnia. Without meaning to, you can actually convince yourself to have insomnia Through meditation your mind can create a serene place...
Treating Congestive Heart Failure
Heart failure is the result of the heart becoming unable to pump blood all through the body. When the blood doesn't circulate correctly then the tissues are deprived of the oxygen and nutrients...
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...
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...
Heartburn can be surprising in the way it can sneak up on you and finding relief from heartburn becomes very important real fast. It can happen at any time night or day and especially after meals....
Prostate Cancer and How a Healthy Diet Helps
Most of the time, men who are diagnosed with cancer actually have prostate cancer. Only one in ten men in their 70's actually develops the symptoms of prostate cancer even though a whooping 50%...
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...
Benefits of Incorporating Swimming Into Your Exercise Routine
As a newbie triathlete, I never imagined how difficult swimming would be when I first jumped into a pool. Despite doing numerous marathons and cycle racing, struggling to get from one end of a...
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...
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...
Yoga Benefits Each and Everyone of Us
Yoga is an ancient practice that anyone at any age can do. There are some that believe we are natural born yogis, remember when the practice of pulling our toes up to our ears was fun and we would...
Using Health Foods : More Isn't Always Better
Using health foods in your diet is a really good idea. But how much should you use? More isn't always better. At least you can't have too much water can you? Water means pure water. Fluoride toxic...
Self Help books are books written for the purpose of instructing their readers on personal problems. Self Help books normally contain a significant element of 'self-improvement' bookstores, and...
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...
Yoga and Meditation – What a Great Combination
Yoga at the physical level is a cleansing practice that can be very effective when is comes to treating different disorders. This has been medically proven. We also know that regular routine meditative...
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;...
Avoid Cancer Using Prostate Massage Technique & Exercise
Using a prostate massage technique is probably the simplest and least invasive of prevention methods available to men who may be concerned with this health issue. Lying behind the pubic bone in...
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...
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...