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Tuesday, Feb 26th 2013
Exercise and Immunity: What's the Connection?
My children used to laugh at me when I gave them my best advice for treating a cold.
Go exercise, I'd insist. Works like a charm!
They'd look at me with blank stares, pick up their tissues and walk away.
But now they're in their 20s. And if you have older kids, you know what happens. Eventually they start to listen. Now when they have colds, they take their tissues along to the gym.
Tuesday, Feb 19th 2013
What to Eat to Keep Your Heart Healthy
When it comes to rating their greatest health fear, most women will say breast cancer. And while there is good reason to fear the disease—it kills almost 40,000 women each year—the death toll from heart disease is way higher. In fact, heart disease is not only the number one killer of women in the United States—claiming the lives of over 400,000 women each year—but is also a leading cause of disability among women.
Tuesday, Feb 12th 2013
What? We're Less Healthy Than Our Parents?
When I think back to my childhood and conjure a picture of a 50-something-year-old man or woman, I think one thing: OLD. Remember back to those days? We were young—they were old.
And now, we are them.
But when I look at my contemporaries or, for that matter, myself, that picture is markedly different from the one I saw years ago.
Wednesday, Feb 06th 2013
Dating at Midlife
When you consider how many marriages end in divorce, it's not surprising that by your middle-age years you know a lot of people who are either looking for love, actively dating, deciding to live life without a partner or are on their second, third or even fourth marriages. Maybe you're even one of them.
