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  • Never too old for yoga

    Most everything I have been doing of late is working at tightening my muscles…cycling, walking, playing squash….

    That’s not bad as I am losing inches – but I was beginning to feel a bit crampy at times…and that’s not good.

    I do yoga at home with my videos – but like most – on my own it’s a short session and not frequent : -) and so I am going twice a week to a low-key yoga class….and I feel the difference immediately…

    We all need to keep ourselves flexible…and oddly enough, by adding yoga to my life – I have suddenly lost weight!

    As we age, that flexibility is important – the stretching and working at staying more “moveable” is good for all bodies.

    An old saying [I can’t find the origin of] is: “whatever the question – the answer is more yoga.”

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

  • Here we go round the recall idea [again, again]

    From the recent news:

    Meat supplier expands beef recall to 5.7 million pounds of beef

    Tuesday, June 12, 2007

    – Associated Press Staff Report LOS ANGELES (AP) – For the third time in a week, a meat supplier has expanded a ground beef recall to include about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat because they may be contaminated with E.coli.

    David Goldman, acting administrator of the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service, announced on Saturday that the recall would be expanded to include products with sell-by dates from April 6-April 20. The beef was distributed by California-based United Food Group LLC.

    Goldman said that none of the latest batch of suspect beef is in stores now because the product would be well past its expiration date, but consumers may still have some of the meat at home.

    “It is important for consumers to look in their freezers,” Goldman said.

    For more info on the dates and stores involved as well as the phone number of the distributor – go HERE

    I eat only Kosher meat – it really is safer – and tastier!

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

  • 50 years ago

    I was looking at the paper today – which had an entire section devoted to the local high schools and their graduates for the year 2007. I suddenly realized that is was 50 years ago [exact date no longer recalled] that my own high school graduation happened: the class of 1957 – Andrew Jackson High School, Queens, NYC.

    Not sure if it’s a NYC thing – or more widespread – but I don’t recall having been back to my high school since graduation – nor have I ever attended a reunion. Nor am I sure if reunions even happened over these 50 years. But even if they had, I am not sure I would have gone as I’ve never gone to a school reunion of any kind…even when I lived closer to the schools I attended.

    1953- 1957 at Jackson were seemingly typical times for New York City High Schools and only in retrospect has any of it seemed odd…Jackson had a mix of black and white students but we had what are now called race riots [of sorts] but I don’t recall what they were labeled than. Most of the “issues” stemmed from basketball games and seemed more of a your high school v. our high school rather than black v. white.

    We had stabbings in the staircases – [ah the up and down staircases] – where a student would be stabbed in the leg by someone on the “other” side of the glass that separated up and down and which always had broken panes….most of us dealt with these incidents by walking near the solid walls and not the side near the windows. There was a time when we had NYC’s finest in our locker rooms although I can not recall the specifics of why – it seems there were always police around the school…

    I think we had over 700 in the class of ’57 and the classes behind us were even larger! That’s over 3000 teens in a building built for far fewer…[In those days grades 9 thru 12 were in the same building.] I had some classes where two students shared the small seat and desk for some classes; the kind of desk/seat combos that were bolted to the floor ☺.

    We had criminals in our classes – kids that wound up in Sing Sing before they graduated. We had academic stars and athletes. We had pregnant female classmates who “went away to live with a relative” for a while since pregnant “girls” were not allowed to stay in school.

    We had friends get married as soon as they graduated and many who went off to work in Manhattan while some of us went off to Queens College, one of the NYS Teacher’s Colleges or more “grand” colleges and universities.

    I am still in touch with a few from my NYC childhood and high school days. Like my family, they still live in or near NYC… while I became a wanderer.

    Wow – 50 years since high school graduation…..it amazes me…. I’m sure at that time I thought that anyone over 25 was ancient and anyone in their 60’s was a doddering old person…we all live and learn….

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

  • Will you ever retire?

    From today’s news…

    After falling for more than 100 years, the retirement age chosen by working Americans is edging up again, and the trend could have broad consequences for households and the economy.

    In the mid-1980s, just 18 percent of people in their late 60s still worked, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure is up to 29 percent, and experts believe that the number will rise as people confront the prospect of a lengthy and expensive old age with limited retirement benefits.

    More than 1 in 4 baby boomers — born from 1946 to 1964 — plan to never retire, a recent survey by the National Association of Realtors shows.

    Full article HERE

    This statistic has popped up before – and the whys of it are mixed – some people keep working because they love what they are doing. Some “retire” from their “job” and start their own business doing something they have always loved.

    But – and it’s a big but – many keep on working because they need the money, the health insurance and because they fear what the financial future might bring in terms of the loss of retirenemt benefits, lack of retirenemt funds, and the general overall picture of our futre sfilled with taxes to pay the debt our governemt is running up with it’s Iraq occupation…

    So when you are approaching what used to be considere retiebnwe age – what will you do?

    It’s a good question to ponder whether you are still working or if you are already sort of retired…or fully retired..

    I truly believe we can all have several careers in one lifetime….so why not one you love for now?
    [you can always change what you do if you so wish : – )]

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

  • Protect the consumer? Hah

    I’m cross-posting this from lynnsrants – for those who do not read that blog….and may need to know of more recalls….

    A few more “bad stuff” postings:

    If you wear contacts and use AMO solution – please read…this is not being loudly announced – I saw it online and went OOPS – this is what I have been using!!!!

    AMO Announces Voluntary Recall of Complete(R) MoisturePlus(TM) Multipurpose Solution

    SANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 25, 2007–In response to information received today from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding eye infections from Acanthamoeba, a naturally occurring water-borne organism which can contribute to serious corneal infections, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) (NYSE:EYE) is immediately and voluntarily recalling its Complete(R) MoisturePlus(TM) contact lens solutions. CDC data was made available to AMO today showing that it had completed interviews with 46 patients who had developed Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) since January 2005. A total of 39 of these patients were soft contact lens wearers, 21 of whom reported using Complete(R) MoisturePlus(TM) products. The CDC estimates a risk of at least seven times greater for those who used Complete(R) MoisturePLUS(TM) solution versus those who did not.

    Full article HERE

    And more bad “food” from China – people food this time.

    Imported Monkfish May Actually be Poisonous Puffer Fish: FDA

    Americans should not buy or eat imported fish labeled as monkfish that may actually be puffer fish containing a dangerous and potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.

    The agency said that 282 22-pound boxes of the fish were imported from China and distributed by Hong Chang Corp., of Santa Fe Springs, Calif. to wholesalers in Illinois, California and Hawaii beginning in September 2006.

    Two people in Chicago became ill after they ate soup made with the fish and one of them had to be hospitalized. Initial symptoms of tetrodotoxin poisoning include tingling of lips, tongue, face and extremities. Subsequent symptoms may include headache, balance problems, excessive salvation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. Anyone with these symptoms should seek immediate medical care, the FDA said.

    Severe cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning can cause muscle paralysis and death due to respiratory muscle paralysis.

    Full article HERE

    So more “stuff” from China is mislabeled – after harming pets the new batch is harming people – will we learn from this?
    Not as long as moneyshrub is king and money politiks is the bottom line here in the USA.

    and so we go blind…they don’t care…as long as the big corporations make tons of money….
    that’s the criteria for most consumer decisions it seems

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