That’s if you wake up in the middle of the night. It won’t help and can only make you more anxious. If you’re still awake after 15 minutes get up and do something that makes you sleepy. Listen to Sade. Have any old textbooks from school?
– Jet Cannon
National Geographic says lifting weights does this so it must be true.
– Jet Cannon
Prevention Magazine suggests some exercises we can try before the weather turns nice. Some of them may be a little extreme for Buzzed Boomers but the rest could be great to incorporate into the exercise rotation. Here they are:
Mountain Climbers – those are tough!
Mall Walking – that’s more like it
Skiing and Snowboarding – wear a helmet
Jumping Rope – timeless classic
Chores – kill two birds with one stone!
Strength Training – you’re already doing that
Ice Skating – sounds good on paper
At-Home Abs – ouch!
Take the stairs – two at a time?
– Jet Cannon
After Dry January, our weight loss has plateaued a bit so an article in Women’s Health caught our eye. It covered tips for losing weight when over 60. There are not too many surprises here but it’s a good reminder.
So there you go! Problem solved!
This was in the Washington Post:
“Multivitamins may help slow memory loss in older adults, study shows
A large trial found that people ages 60 and older who took a daily multivitamin showed an estimated 3.1 fewer years of memory loss than those who took a placebo.”
“May help slow?” I can’t remember the last time we got anything definitive from these scientists!! Or was it yesterday? Not sure.
Nearly 60 years after appearing on Ed Sullivan, Ringo finally made it on the cover of Rolling…. AARP Magazine. At 83 years young, he’s still rockin’. Being sober helps. His Buzz comes from exercise and music!!
– Jet Cannon
Photo: AARP
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Inflammation is bad. It is your immune system’s response to an irritant, injury, or infection. In chronic inflammation, your inflammation doesn’t go away, and your immune system continues to send out white blood cells. Your white blood cells may attack healthy organs and tissues. Can drinking tea help with inflammation? After reading about a National Institute of Health study and this WebMD article, we can definitely say…. Probably. Maybe. Also, it’s likely tea helps with brain, bone, and heart health. Hey, it’s tea time somewhere.
Scientific American recently reported on an aging re-focus. Here’s a link and below is an excerpt.
“We’re now saying our focus should be on extending healthy life rather than just length of life, and slowing aging is the tool to do it,” says Jay Olshansky, a longevity expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For now, one way to extend healthspan is through unsurprising preventive maintenance. Experts recommend checkups, staying on top of cholesterol levels and blood pressure, and following guidelines such as those from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition for body fat percentage, lean body mass and bone density. “Know where you are so if something needs to be tweaked you can take steps to do that,” says Matt Kaeberlein, founding director of the University of Washington Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute and now chief executive officer of Optispan, a health tech company.
Those steps are also familiar: common-sense nutrition, sleep, exercise and social connection are the four main factors. “The reason those things work is because they modulate the biology of aging,” Kaeberlein says. For example, regular low- or moderate-intensity exercise helps to prevent cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. How much extra health can these steps get us? “Ten years is probably pretty realistic,” Kaeberlein says.
There’s some tips, kids. Write ‘em down.
– Jet Cannon
Are we getting in our steps? Hope so. Therefore, it may be time to replace the shoes. It’s always good to have plenty of tread and that new-shoe cushiness wears down after awhile. Watch for nice price reductions as we approach and hit Black Friday. Happy shopping!
AARP just wrote about “Super Agers” and their secrets to a healthier, longer life. Though not well-kept “secrets” their tips are a good reminder of what we should be doing.
AARP membership includes all kinds of good information and benefits for seniors. It’s also inexpensive to become a member.
Well, maybe not. You may have already read the many articles on the subject. The short answer for how much water you need to drink per day is…. It depends! It depends on a lot of factors. This Vogue article is fairly helpful. It sounds like a baseline is around 14 cups per day. Get out the Depends.
– Jet Cannon
Shape.com featured a helpful article on wellness mistakes and what to do instead. Since we have never made those mistakes, we didn’t read further. Here they are:
– Too much lemon water
– Undiluted apple cider vinegar shots
– Overdoing it on the veggies
– Drinking too much water
– Avoiding egg yolks (choosing only egg whites)
– Skipping meals for weight loss
– Overtraining
It’s nice to be right on the money for once!
– Jet Cannon
We love reporting on the benefits of daily walking especially when the number of steps needed appears to drop. That said, the latest studies pretty much agree that more is better up to about 20,000 steps. But as few as 2,500 can lead to longer lives. Here’s the latest details in Time magazine. It’s interesting and hopefully inspires to keep getting out there.
– Jet Cannon