grow older better

Author: Lynn Dorman, Ph.D.

  • If you are around children read this Fisher-Price toy recall

    This in the news today:

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-Price division is recalling almost 1 million toys made in China because their paint may contain too much lead, marking the latest in a string of recalls that have fueled U.S.-China tensions over the safety of Chinese products.

    Mattel said the 967,000 plastic toys, which include popular preschool characters like Elmo, Big Bird, and Dora, were made by a contract manufacturer in China using a non-approved paint pigment containing lead, which is in violation of its standards.

    Full article HERE

    Why are all these dangerous products still coming in? We have had bad pet food, bad people food and bad children’s toys. No one seems able to stop them because no one is monitoring our safety! We have few person who do the actual inspections – in fact there are fewer food safety inspectors than back in 2002 and we import more and more stuff – with fewer and fewer inspections!

    This from an administration that pretends to be concerned with public safety – when they are in reality more concerned with scare tactics and keeping people afraid.

    After all – Fear is good for republicans…

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Friends and weight

    One reason I like longitudinal studies [long term/same people] is that researchers can mine the data and find much over the years…even when it wasn’t the original idea of the study.

    The Framingham study is one such a research project. This project followed people in Framingham, Mass for decades beginning in 1948 as the Framingham Heart Study. The health and social data collected is still being analyzed today.

    One of the very recent findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine is based on the large social networks of many the persons who have been part of the study for decades.

    Social and weight data from 1971 to 2003 was analyzed by Harvard researchers who found that you are more likely to become obese if your friends are obese. As one who heard “birds of a feather flock together” from my mother [when she did not like what my friends were doing] this is not a surprise.

    The question was raised as to whether we’d lose weight or be thin if we hung around with skinnier people…the researchers said yes – but they found on the average that most people were gaining as they aged. some think this is inevitable but I do not. I still think it is a myth – we gain if we do not change our eating to stay in balance with our metabolism – and that changes as we age…

    You can be lean at any point in your lifespan…but I guess not if you hang around with obese people.

    Next question? If you choose to get leaner – will that affect your best friend’s weight? I think yes…but you have to do your thing and not get caught up in theirs..and we are social creatures…

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • Weighty issues : – )

    I have been following my own advice for a few weeks. Figured if I was working with people on eating for their own metabolism I ought to recheck my own eating….and whoops I was not doing enough protein for me.

    So since the 4th of July – I added protein in the form of bison and have lost 5 pounds. Even better – I lost 3 inches on my hips and 3 around my waist. I feel great! And am looking much leaner…my friends have asked if I lost a lot of weight. Nope – just getting lean…

    I’m also still exercising although I took off last week [too hot ]- but it seemed to not make a difference – I jumped right back into my usual routine this week with no problems.

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • 29 years ago today….

    My son was born – in Boston, Massachusetts…..now I live in Oregon and he lives in Illinois….with more than a few stops for each of us in those 29 years….

    But today we are in Portland and I had brunch with that now 29-year-old… it’s been 2 years in a row that I have seen him on his birthday – that after years of not seeing him in July as we were on very different schedules…

    He, his significant other, and I had a tasty meal and chatted for hours….he is out here helping her pack up as she is moving to Chicago with him…

    And he still thinks it’s funny that I again said that I can’t believe he is 29 as I have not aged 29 years since July 15, 1978 –
    [I have said this for many of his birthdays – changing only the number : – )]

    I am not alone in this thinking – I’ve met other mothers who say the same or very similar things – we all recall the births of our children as if they were recent….so we can’t have really aged as many years as our children…can we?

    glyconutrients, healthy aging, growing older, aging, nutrition, exercise, eating properly,

  • What dorks!

    Today I got a message from someone who filled out the more info form…it was from one of those scammer/spammers I had mentioned – the ones who tell you that someone with your surname died, etc…

    So now we know that the scammer/spammers troll blogs to find names and go thru the same idiocy of telling you they will help you lie to authorities to get money…[of course they claim it’s all legal – except you are to keep it a secret]

    but to do this to bloggers who are onto them is hilarious…

    I know they spam most people but they are targeting those over 50 whom they think are more apt to fall for the scam…

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