Advocating Non-Traditional Lifelong Growth and Productivity
A minute of secondhand marijuana smoke may damage blood vessels: Study in rats * * * Resveratrol appears to restore blood-brain barrier integrity in Alzheimer's disease * * * Faces aren't always to be believed when it comes to honesty * * * All e-cigarettes emit harmful chemicals, but some emit more … [Read more...] about Good Stuff To Know September 2016
A currently running TV commercial shows two teens arriving at their grandparents home. Instead of hugs for the kids, Grandma and Grandpa shove a handful of tech gadgets with dangling wires into the hands of the teens and greet them with, " We are so happy to see you. None of this works." The commercial perpetuates the myth that old people are incapable of learning anything … [Read more...] about Are Old People Their Own Worst Enemies?
Did you know that 2014 was the first time in 130 years during which more adults age 18 through 34 lived in their parents’ homes than lived with a spouse or partner? Did you know that over 25% of Baby Boomers are caring for aging parents in some way and that the percentage has tripled in the last 15 years? Now, consider that about 10,000 Baby Boomers retire every day. … [Read more...] about Retirement Life Planning A Team Sport
Many elderly are prescribed antihypertensive medication despite already having low blood pressure *** Are we giving up on cardiac arrest patients too soon? *** UTSA researcher develops new, non-invasive method to wipe out cancerous tumors *** … [Read more...] about Good Stuff To Know August 2016
Ivanka Trump, speaking at the Republican convention about her father Donald Trump, said he always told her that since she would be thinking anyway, she may as well "think big". It looks like that advice works for him. The saying, "thinking makes it so" is more profound than we realize. I truly believe we become what we consistently think about ourselves, and say out loud … [Read more...] about I Am AWE-SOME (And So Are You)
What do mental attitude, beliefs, and faith have as a common denominator? Self-talk—that great self-saboteur. Ready to take your conscious and subconscious self-talk to a whole new level? Often, the topics of mental attitude, beliefs, and faith can feel like something outside of us. Let’s place these firmly within us, where they belong, and as the power generators they are … [Read more...] about Mental Attitude, Beliefs, and Faith: A Foolproof Way to Shift What You Believe in Your Favor
Geisinger Medical Center in central northeast Pennsylvania will no longer allow its nurses to wear casual clothing to work after a patient survey revealed a decline in the professional appearance of its nursing staff. The 505-bed hospital decided to reconsider its dress code after patients said they weren't sure how to identify different levels of nurses and nursing staff. … [Read more...] about The Resurrection of Dress Standards?
Listen to Lura sing "Thank Heaven For You" with her husband who wrote the song.
Too many are hung up on ‘age’. When the subject of age comes up in a conversation, some visibly (almost) shudder. Others leave the group. Some act as if ‘getting older’ is a fatal disease that must be avoided. Many see this as a juvenile attitude and the … [Read more...] about Happy With My Age !!!Ginnie Siena Bivona and Larry Upshaw, chief visionaries at AgelessAuthors.com Photo: Dallas Morning News
When Ginnie Siena Bivona turned 42, she decided she was tired of "living under protective custody" tied to her wifely duties, raising five kids and playing bridge. She started writing poetry … [Read more...] about Dallas’ Ginnie Siena Bivona to older authors: Now’s your time to be an open bookArthritis - The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me... (Healing The Pain Of Psoriatic And Rheumatoid Arthritis And How Autoimmunity Can Heal Your Body And Soul) is about reversing inflammatory arthritis, even when doctors say it's impossible. Author Phil Escott posits that comprehensive changes in diet, along with correcting many other disconnects from our genetic … [Read more...] about New Book About Psoriatic Arthritis
