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  • Glasses Or Contacts – The Age Old Debate

    This is my personal experience with both contacts and glasses – I’ll start with the pros and cons of each as I see them.

    Glasses

    Pros

    • easy to put on
    • easy to clean
    • easier upkeep

    Cons

    • annoying
    • result nose dents over the years
    • may need to switch between sets of glasses
    • may need sunglasses over the regular glasses

    Contacts

    Pros

    • vision is often better and clearer
    • freedom from the weight of the glasses frame
    • nice to have fresh air hitting one’s whole face
    • you don’t fog ski goggles

    Cons

    • can be expensive
    • can be time consuming to get them in
    • they can rip easily
    • they can pop out and get lost
    • need to have lots of paraphernalia for their care [lens boxes, cleaners, etc.]
    • you still need a pair of glasses – for those just in case times

    I started wearing reading glasses when I was about 20 and had my driver’s license stamped “corrective lenses required” when I was about 45.  As I am now 70 – that’s 50 years of wearing glasses and 25 years of needing them on all day every day.

    As I am far sighted and astigmatic, contacts were not an option until they made them for eyes like mine!  At every appointment with an eye doctor, I asked if there were contacts that I could wear and wow was I happy to one day hear “Yes!

    Read more about the Glasses Or Contacts debate….. then please leave your comments below

  • Overweight women and exercise – will it make you fit?

    Short answer – NO!

    Exercise will not cut the risk of heart disease in those who are overweight unless they also slim down, according to a study of thousands of U.S. women….

    "Even high quantities of physical activity are unlikely to fully reverse the risk of coronary heart disease in overweight and obese women without concurrent weight loss," Dr. Amy Weinstein and colleagues at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported.

    Read about the study: can you be fit and overweight?
    [This study,     begun in 1992,  was carried out over the years and followed the women and their health issues.]

    The major finding was that exercise is important, but so is being leaner.  This is why I write and talk about weight and obesity topics a lot – especially as we head into that time of year when many people put on a few pounds more and exercise a whole lot less.

    We have an ongoing obesity epidemic in the USA as well as in other parts of the world, and here it is not only is it hurting aging women, it is killing our children who are facing diabetes and other obesity related diseases at early ages.

    PLEASE – keep your resolution to manage your weight and to be more active…you owe it to yourself and your loved ones…

    Set a good example for your kids and grandkids…

     

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