Vitamins, diet, exercise, rest and calm: Five components for taking care of yourself are these; not necessarily the best or the only, just five important considerations in maintaining your good health. Getting a head start on these at or near retirement will head off having to make excessive visits to your physician, taking too many prescribed meds, and [...]
A couple of articles in the news this past week suggest the need to provide information to our readers about Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care and the interface with Hospice.
Caring Connections is a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, a national consumer and community engagement initiative to improve care at the end [...]
Let’s talk about Cayenne. We know it as a caliente HOT pepper. We add it to sauces and soups for the tangy taste, but we don’t use much unless we can tolerate the burn it creates on our palate.
What you may not know about Cayenne is its healing power. It’s been healing a variety of [...]
As recently as 40 years ago, a diagnosis of glaucoma meant certain blindness. Today, with the miracles of modern science, it is a treatable disease that assures the senior citizen who inherits it a full life of good eyesight.
But what is glaucoma?
It is a progressive disease in which the ocular pressure increases, sometimes to the [...]
A recent article in Cancer Causes and Control, an international journal that studies cancer in humans, suggested that an active lifestyle may provide some protection against prostate cancer.
Studies have looked at diet, exercise, weight and environmental influences that contribute to cancer growing from microscopic tumors to clinically significant tumors. Such studies suggest a variety of [...]
Everyone experiences difficulty falling to sleep or staying asleep at times in their lives. No one is exempt. However, if it lasts longer than two to three weeks, experts suggest insomnia may be occurring. Insomnia is just that–difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.
The causes are many and varied:
too much caffeine or alcohol too late in the [...]
The swine flu pandemic was officially announced early last June (2009) by WHO, the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Here are the basic questions most senior citizens are asking, and the simple-to-understand answers:
What is Swine Flu? This flu is one of many varieties of flu that have crossed the globe over the past several [...]
Twenty-five years ago, when my mother was dying of cancer, she developed a cold and clogged sinus. She went to a health food store because she chose not to use traditional medical treatment at that point in her life. A clerk at the health food store told her to keep her nose and sinuses clear [...]
