When I was a kid I wanted to be a writer. I knew what writers did as I was a library aficionado. I read books about dogs and horses and wrote books about horses and dogs – even drawing my own pictures. And as I got older I had the main NY public library on…
What will you do with all the extra years? Right now there are nearly 2 million people in the USA who are in their 90s and it is projected that by 2050 three will be 9 million of us over 90. What will the extra years be like for us? Many "seniors" are already worried…
What are we doing to our brains We now know that poor diets and damage to the hypothalamus are related. Here's another reason to eat more healthy foods as we age – it will keep you mentally sharper. A study, published in the journal Neurology, found that Elderly people with higher levels of vitamins B,…
What are we doing to our brains? Our bodies? The hypothalamus is a small almond sized structure situated just above the brain stem and controls body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian cycles. These are functions in the category of homeostasis – or balance. Look what we are doing! Obesity appears to be…
Sometimes I feel like a broken record…and when it's about drugs, that's sad. We are are a "take a pill for that" kind of culture. Look at all the ads on TV: "Ask you doctor if X is right for you." Pills will [allegedly] make us, the adults, more beautiful, thin, happy, able to have…