What we can do now to live longer, in better health with more fun and adventures
Your dog’s love is never more evident than when you arrive home. Your dog is overjoyed to see you. Such a welcome! It makes you feel on top of the world! And it’s not just love that your dog gives you so freely, but a whole load of other benefits too. In fact, scientists can …
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Knitting is cool these days. It’s not just knitting grandmas any more. Lots of celebrities do it. Here are a few: Sarah Jessica Parker, Krysten Ritter, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. And it’s not just the women! Ryan Gosling has had a go. Russell Crowe, David Arquette and George Lucas are into it too. Wait a minute: …
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A rush of friends and visitors this month has set me thinking about why friends are important. Lockdown deprived us of those essential social connections. What is life without friends to share it with? Some of my friends really struggled without the boost they get from friends. Did you? For me, it’s felt a bit …
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Alzheimer’s is not a condition that you would associate with great life lessons in ageing. But living with Alzheimer’s and writing a book about the experience makes Wendy Mitchell a role model whose inspiration score is way beyond those of most of us. Her memoir, ‘Somebody I Used to Know‘, is both a tough book …
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Did you ever think about eating MORE healthy chocolate? Mmm – that sounds a bit weird, thinking of chocolate as healthy. Is there any such thing as healthy chocolate? Or is it forever a forbidden fruit? There is so much bad press about it, and most advice is that it’s a no-no for weight loss …
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12 Sneaky Ways to Exercise on Zoom Calls Ever thought you must try to fit in more ways to exercise? How about exercising during your zoom calls? Zoom calls are so tiring and it’s all too easy to lose focus on what the call is about, even if you’re actually interested in what’s going on. …
I read this book on aging quite a while before I knew that there was a film of it, leave alone that it had won all those Oscars. It’s a testament to the way that the Nomadland book’s original material touched a real nerve. The film visually illustrates the difficulties of Nomadland’s forgotten tribe of …
Has your fashion fun faded now that you are dealing with over 50 fashion? What if it didn’t have to? Remember how it felt to lie in bed and browse fashion magazines when you were younger? Or the thrill of wearing something that makes you feel amazing? What about having a stranger stop you to …
I recently read Retirement Heaven or Hell: 9 Principles for Designing Your Ideal Post-Career Lifestyle by Mike Drak, Susan Williams and Rob Morrison. Mike and his co-authors demonstrate how retirement is all about your lifestyle choices. And like all choices in life, they are based on our preconceptions and expectations of that next phase of life. …
Do you worry about forgetting things? How about improving your memory naturally? I think every one of us wants a good memory. As we age, we can frighten ourselves big time, thinking that, because we forgot where we put the salt or the TV remote or the new tube of toothpaste, we’re on the road …