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Tag: Aging

  • Yearning to Be a Cougar? How to Look Younger Than Your Age

    Cougars!  The latest description of women who like younger men.

    [At least it’s no longer called “robbing the cradle” or “perverse.”]

    Throughout history, there have been older woman-younger man pairings but without the surrounding publicity we now have via celebrity news and instant media.  And because of this, the use of the term cougar has gone from a pejorative term to one that is positive and has hit the popular mainstream of today’s media love of anything sexual.

    Historically men have been involved with younger women [often very much younger women] and that was acceptable.  But women involved with younger men had not been so well received; that is until now.  [And the younger man in the relationship was never belittled as much as the older woman.]

    So – you want to be a cougar?  Yes? Then go for it!

    The 1st step in being or becoming a cougar is to not worry what others might think of you.  If you worry about how those “others” view you – you need to develop some tough skin as there are some, maybe even your friends, who will not approve of your “going cougar.”

    The 2nd step is to look your best.  I’m one who thinks we all “look our age” because we <b>are</b> our age and that’s how we look.  But that said – the more general population has myths about how older woman look.  My article 5 Misconceptions About People Over 65 explores some of those myths.

    Can we look younger?  I’m not sure of that in reality, but we can meet the societal mythology of “you don’t look your age.”   And we can do that by looking the best we can look.

    And how do we look our best?  And especially, how do we do this if we are over 40, 50, 60 or even 70?   

    Not by trying to look “young” in teenage type clothing!  Sorry – but teen clothes are for teens – not grown woman.  Few of us can carry off that skin-tight-belly-hip-showing style without looking like – well woman trying sadly to look like teens. 

    Instead be a great example of who you already are! 

    How? 

    • Lose the belly fat, exercise, and stretch. 
    • Be as lean and lithe as your body will allow and wear clothing that complements your body. 
    • Take care of your skin with water-based products; keep your hair neat and colored if you wish.
    • And do wear some makeup.  

    Ready – set – go!! 

    Get out there and be a cougar!

    And for tips on the "hows" please see:

    http://www.graywolfproductions.com/beinghealthy/

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  • Supplements That Can Help You Immensely As You Age

    Lynn at 70I personally do not believe in the concept of anti-aging because we cannot really go backwards or stop our aging process. 

    But anti-aging has become a popular term most often used to sell all matter of products to those who are called “boomers” or “baby boomers.”

     

    [An aside – I am so glad I am older so I don’t have that label.]

    While we cannot stop the aging process – we can certainly slow it down and in some cases reverse some, but not all, ongoing damage to our bodies.  And – while slowing it down, we can also be doing things to look and feel good as we continue to age. 

    The phrase “you don’t look your age” is, to me, a sign of age bias since I actually do look my age.  We all look our ages – because we ARE those ages. 

    Bias aside, we seem to love being told we don’t look our ages.  So with all that said – yes – there are supplements that can help you immensely as you age. 

    In fact, these same supplements can help persons of all ages to age well.  And – as one with expertise in human development – please believe me when I say it’s never too early or too late to start taking care of your body [including your skin,] as well as your mind and spirit. 

    We live in a toxic world and that toxicity affects our food, water and our bodies.  We do need to take supplements to make up for what is, and is not, there in our food, soil and water.

    We need to learn about supplements that can help us and then we need to choose those supplements intelligently so that we feel and look as good as we can as we progress through life.

    What are these supplements?

    [Hint: the ones I take and I think at 70 – I still look great]

    you can read the rest of this article  at: http://ow.ly/1YxbQ

    Or – you can go to http:/graywolfproductions.com/beinghealthy/

    and read about the supplements / or do both


  • 5 Misconceptions About People Over 65

    "old" lady with beer after a 36 mile bike ride"OLD" lady with a beer after biking 36+ miles over 10 PDX bridges!

     

     

     

     

    The 5 most common misconceptions about older people:

    1- Older people always get fat

    They can get fat – but so can a 3 year old! Do they have to get fat? Of course not. Metabolisms change but the changing of one's eating habits and the increasing of exercise will do wonders about weight.

    [I'll let you in on a secret – this works for all ages!]

    2- Older people are fragile and hunched over

    I hear people say this and I am not sure what they mean by fragile. Do they think bones just break, that older people fall all the time or are so weak they can't move around?

    Bones lose density; especially for post-menopausal women but there are ways to help that not happen. Now that we know more about osteoporosis I expect we will see fewer older persons who develop the hunched over position.

    As for fragility? Ski areas on Mt. Hood in Oregon offer free skiing for those over 71 or 72 depending on the area.  I've met skiers over 80 skiing away there.  Fragile?  Nope.  Maybe the regular skiing keeps them strong?

    3- Older people are poor and subsist on social security checks

    4- Older people are inactive

    5 – Older people are unhealthy

    I teach lifespan human development and many in my classes are nurses. A student once said that he never realized that older people could be healthy – his entire experience with persons over 65 was in a hospital. It was an "AHA" moment for him to learn that he [and we] know little about healthy persons as they age – precisely because they are not in hospitals or assisted living homes where studies can easily be done.

    Read the full article about these 5 myths and then please come back here to chat about them.

    Comment below – thank you muchly

     

  • Musings upon hitting the big seven-zero [70]


    I muse and I also just turned 70 – so this is a new [and very strange] topic for my musings….

    1 –  70 is an age I never thought about when I was “younger” because it seemed so “old.”  But then when I was in my 20’s I used to think 30 was old.  The mantra of the time being “don’t trust anyone over 30.”

    2 – Being 70 is still an odd thought.  I’ve been 70 for almost 2 months and I still feel strange about it and I’m not sure why; me, the developmental psychologist, who has been teaching about the lifespan since the 1970’s.

    3 – I’m still too new at this age to have deeper thoughts about MY being 70 – I can tell you more about those other persons who are 70 than I can tell you about myself.

    4 – I do wake up each day with the thought that I am 70 but happy I am still here and am very healthy.  I don’t remember having these kinds of thoughts when I turned 50 or 60.

    5 – I often stand at the mirror and see my various ages flying by – but then I’m very imaginative and do a lot work with photographs so I have 70 years of me available for viewing.

    To read more of my musings go to the full article musings on being 70

  • Seniors Needing Soup Kitchens: An American Disgrace

    [This was previously published on http://lynnsrants.com but it needs to be here as well.]

    Thanks to the wonderful previous administration the ongoing economic woes here in the USA, we, in a country of used-to-be plenty,  are now forcing our senior citizens into soup kitchens.

     

     

    The number of seniors living alone who seek help from food pantries in the U.S. increased 81 percent to 408,000 in 2008, compared to 225,000 in 2006, according to the U.S.D.A……

    The New York City Coalition Against Hunger released a report on the city's soup kitchens and food pantries that found that 68 percent of responding agencies were seeing an increase in senior citizens. Hunger Solutions Minnesota said this month that food-shelf visits from older people increased 26 percent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2008.  Seniors and Soup Kitchens

    And some who were once volunteers at the soup kitchens are now clients at those same places.

    With no increase in Social Security in 2010 and with the mess of Wall Street still lingering, I expect the statistics will increase over the coming year.  Yes we all got a more than average increase in social security last year but that has already been eaten up by normal costs – the prices of lots of things went up a larger percentage than the social security amount.

    Shame on us! 

    If you have family eating at soup kitchens or in lines to get surplus food – please please help them.  Like all living creatures, seniors need good nutrition – and maybe they need good nutrients more than others.

    And if oyu know of a senior wanting or needing to supplement their income as well as their diet, I associate with a company that provides nutritious supplements and has a plan that can help increase one's income. 

    Help a senior today – spread the word about this…  learn more at being healthy.