My Latest Aging Mantra
Aging: Everything takes longer. Everything is more tiring. Everything needs a longer recovery time.
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Growing Older? You Need A Sense of Humor
Ah aging! As I have gotten older, especially since I turned 65, I have been inundated with mail that goes into a category that I now call…….Information for those about to dieThe mail is about falling, tripping, funerals, cremation, or selling me insurance so my family can pay for the funeral or cremation expenses. But I…
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Keep On Keepin’ On With A Dog
My heat wave has been over for a couple of days and I took the dog for a few long walks today. I realized again that “we” walk 3 to 4 miles a day. That means I walk 3 to 4 miles a day but she puts in a lot more mileage “playing tennis.”I also…
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Getting Your Sweat On: In Shorts Bursts!
Some research in Scotland, with only a few participants, showed that high intensity training [6 second bursts of going “all out”] may be very beneficial.Over the 6 week study, they increased the burst to 1 minute and the researchers found this HIT exercising lowered blood pressure and made regular life tasks like dog walking easier…
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Moving In With Your Parents. Not Just For Young Adults Anymore
It is not just new college graduates and young adults moving back home. Now the 50-64 year olds are moving back home too. For seven years through 2012, the number of Californians aged 50 to 64 who live in their parents’ homes swelled 67.6% to about 194,000, according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy…