COVID-19: What to Do If You Think You Have It Right now, any cough might raise the question, “Do I have COVID-19?” However, we’re still in cold and flu season and seasonal allergies might be starting up. How do you know which tickle in your throat is caused by pollen,...
12 Simple Ways to Cut Down on Carbs There are a lot of diets out there, and it’s easy to be overwhelmed by conflicting nutrition advice. Many popular diets today – including the Ketogenic, South Beach, and Atkins diets – are focused on reducing the amount of carbohydrates...
“Prehabilitation” Helps Seniors Get Back on Their Feet After Surgery You wouldn’t run a marathon or climb a mountain without training for it. Why then do most of us go into surgery, which is as hard – if not harder – on our bodies, without a single second of preparation?...
Are You an Optimist? You Might Just Live Longer! Do your friends and family call you Pollyanna or Little Miss (or Mister) Sunshine? Do you believe the glass is half full, instead of half empty? Do you always look on the bright side? If that sounds like you, a...
Do Life’s Challenges Make You Even More Thankful? When you reach a certain age, you sometimes have years that are full of bad news, bad health, and bad luck. But by this point in life, you also know to take the bad with the good – it makes...
Recipe: Loaded Cauliflower Tots You heard that right – tots done the healthy way! Try this once and it will be guest starring alongside many of your meals. WHAT YOU NEED: 1 large head cauliflower, broken into florets 1 egg 4 slices nitrate-free bacon...
Laughter Yoga?! How This Phenomenon Can Improve Your Health Yoga became popular in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and today, about 36 millions Americans practice it. Twenty one percent of yoga practitioners are over 60. In addition to traditional yoga, Americans practice a slew of unconventional...
Top 6 Reasons Why You Should Be Journaling Journaling means keeping a record of your thoughts and activities. However, while journal keepers may focus on the present and record daily events, journaling moves beyond just a list of activities, like you might record in a diary or calendar....
Dancing: One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Brain! At 75, Shirley wants to maintain her mental acuity for as long as possible. That’s why she doesn’t spend her Wednesday and Friday nights playing Scrabble or Sudoku like some of her friends at the retirement community. Instead, she puts...
Untreated Hearing Loss Could Be Affecting Your Brain Do you frequently ask your spouse to repeat her or himself? Have you continued to turn the TV up louder and louder over the years? Do you resist going to loud restaurants because you can’t keep up with conversations? If...