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Diane Carbo
Found in: Aging, Pets
Many senior citizens and baby boomers will agree that “happiness is pets!” There’s a good reason why: aging pet owners experience physical and emotional health benefits from having a pet that they may not even be aware they are experiencing.
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Donald C. Strauss and Diane B. Burman
Found in: Mental Health, Retirement
Men often see retirement as an end goal, a sort of “holy grail.” Once there, whether attained at a specified time, for example at age 65, or thrust upon them through forced termination at an earlier unplanned stage, the result is the same—“Now what?”
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Obesity, Diet & Nutrition, LN Body Clocks
One way to control your weight is to see food as information: a series of messages given to the body. You want to give your body the right kinds of directions for the food you eat, directions that will change how you look and feel—and how much you weigh.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Exercise & Fitness, Diet & Nutrition, Sleep and Rest
It’s a New Year, so it’s time to take charge. Americans are often unhappy with their lives and their futures...so start not with a resolution, but a revolution—a new way of looking at your body and brain that lets you more fully control your fate.
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Editorial Staff
Found in: Hearing Loss
Ignoring hearing loss is easier when you’re alone. You can turn up the volume on the TV or radio, and you don’t have to ask anyone to repeat what they just said. But how do you cope with hearing loss when you’re in a social or business setting?
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Obesity, Stress, LN Body Clocks, Medicine and Technology
What we do is what we become. The Net is changing our brains and our bodies, and we better understand what shifts will occur. Then we can make the changes we want, and make them work for us.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Obesity, Stress, LN Body Clocks, Medicine and Technology
Many people live their lives in a double mirror. One reflects their live on the Internet; the other reflects their real life. When they compare the two images, they realize they are not the same. Which image they become more attached to may prove key.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Obesity, Stress, LN Body Clocks, Medicine and Technology
Part II: Body clocks affect everything you do. Ask shift workers—a group with higher cardiovascular mortality and higher cancer rates. The Internet is rapidly turning much of the population into biological shiftworkers—and they’re willingly going along.
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Dr. Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH
Found in: Obesity, Stress, LN Body Clocks, Medicine and Technology
Part I: As most of our bodies are replaced in a matter of days to weeks, what we do is what we become. How we live changes not just our gene expression but how we, look, think, and move; it also resets how we rebuild and renew ourselves.
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Diane Carbo
Found in: Exercise & Fitness, Aging
Seniors centers all over the country are teaching seniors how to play the bowling, golf, tennis and boxing games. Many centers hire college students to teach the aging senior how to play the games. The seniors not only are improving their physical fitness
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