grow older better

Tag: food based vitamins

  • I gave in : – )

    I am not one to push going to a physician or getting tests, and I am certainly not a good example to follow … but in the past two weeks I decided to get a physical and get some testing done …. seems peer pressure works …. some friends here and there were doing this [again] and so I figured it was time to see if I had any problems as I had not seen a physician in almost two years. Besides I had just signed on with a new primary care provider and figured I might as well meet her : – )

    Good news – I am healthy ….. or at least that how I interpret all those blood test results – as all were within normal ranges. So I told my friends I was normal – they laughed – so I added – physically… and they laughed louder!
    Other news – there are things I continue to “forget” like getting a tetanus booster … It’s only been at least 37 or 38 years since the last one and I haven’t stepped on any bad stuff in that period of time … It was a rusty nail that got me the booster the last time!
    So – I can’t preach about getting checked out with any great regularity – but I do continue to preach about food-based vitamins and supplements as I am sure that is why I feel so great and am in such good shape for such an “old” lady…

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

  • An Alarming Trend

    A tripling of strokes in middle aged women!

    And why is this happening?

    From the research by Dr. Amytis Towfighi, a neurology specialist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles:

    Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the previous survey, from 1988 to 1994…..Belly fat stood out, Towfighi said. The portion of women with abdominal obesity rose from 47 percent in the earlier survey to 59 percent in the recent one. The change in men was smaller, and previous studies have shown that “abdominal obesity is a stronger risk factor for women than men,” she said.

    Fuller article here

    I know I sound like a broken record on weight issues – but your weight is critical to good health and being overweight is bad for most everything…

    I”m thinking about doing a series of videos on optimizing health – taking supplements [food based; not synthetic], managing your weight [not dieting], eating well and exercising. I’ll post them here as they happen.. If you have a topic you’d like to see – post a comment and let me know what…and I’ll do my best to accommodate requests.

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