Raise your hand if you know someone who has gone on a diet at some point in their life (Yes, you can include yourself – I won’t tell anybody). Hmmm! Most everybody. Thanks for participating. Now, leave your hand up if that/those individual(s) stayed with it and adopted a change in their way of life.… Continue reading The Truth About Diets – They Are As Sensible As Lottery Tickets!
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The Single, Most Important Thing You Can Change to Ensure a Longer and Healthier Life.
If we simply look at the stats behind the most prevalent lifestyle habits that cause early death, we have to come down on diet as the one most responsible for shortening our lives. As this chart points out, the combination of poor diet with inactivity has now surpassed smoking/tobacco as the main cause. Choosing to… Continue reading The Single, Most Important Thing You Can Change to Ensure a Longer and Healthier Life.
In your assessment, do you think you are aging gracefully?
Or is there some work to be done? I had to stop and think about this question. What does “gracefully” mean? My dictionary doesn’t have it except as an adverb of grace. Under grace, we find words like charm, attractiveness, beauty, and ease of movement. I’ve been on the planet longer than most, having just… Continue reading In your assessment, do you think you are aging gracefully?
I Went Back and Had a Conversation With My 50-year-old Self.
It was informative but a bit painful. I recently wrote about what it’s really like to be 80 years old. I don’t normally allow my thinking to regress into the past, but the post got me thinking about what I would say to my 50-year-old self, knowing what I know now. Here’s how that dialog with my… Continue reading I Went Back and Had a Conversation With My 50-year-old Self.
What’s It Really Like Being 80 Years Old? Surprise, surprise! Nothing changed.
Image by annca from Pixabay As you might expect, turning 80 generates this question a lot. There’s a strange significance tied to it, perhaps because something less than half the U.S. population gets there. Well, I just got there — with much more fanfare and celebration than I expected or deserved. Having gotten there, I don’t find… Continue reading What’s It Really Like Being 80 Years Old? Surprise, surprise! Nothing changed.
Can One Live to 80 Without Any Ailments? It’ll Take More Than Luck and Genetics.
Turning 80 is apparently a pretty big deal. I just did it and found that it drew a lot more attention than when I turned 70 – or any other age I recall. Except, perhaps, 21. For stupid adolescent reasons, I don’t remember much about that one. I was somewhere in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a… Continue reading Can One Live to 80 Without Any Ailments? It’ll Take More Than Luck and Genetics.
Why Do the Japanese Outlive Us in America – Without a 24 Hour Fitness?
Photo by Ash Edmonds on Unsplash Remember when GM, Ford, Chrysler scoffed at the quality of Japanese “rice burners” that started showing up on the U.S. market back in the 1970s and dismissed their presence as a potential threat. Not long thereafter, the American auto industry started rolling out gems like this rolling bathtub – – while Toyota… Continue reading Why Do the Japanese Outlive Us in America – Without a 24 Hour Fitness?
Asking Your Forgiveness – I’ve Been Helping You Die Early.
Alexas_Fotos on Pixabay I was mad last week. I was only 1/3 through Dr. Robert Lustig’s book, “Metabolical”, at the time. Now I’m 7/8 through. I’m madder – with a permanent state of mad. I’ve also discovered I owe you, dear reader, an apology. I’ve misled you with some of my writing. If you’ve tracked… Continue reading Asking Your Forgiveness – I’ve Been Helping You Die Early.
News Flash! David Isn’t Coming to Save Us! Don’t Get Caught Waiting.
David Sinclair is an interesting and pretty high-profile guy recently in the burgeoning conversation on aging. As an Australian-born Ph.D. in molecular genetics and a tenured professor at Harvard Medical School, Sinclair comes down squarely on aging as a disease that we will eventually be able to overcome. He’s apparently moved the needle a bit… Continue reading News Flash! David Isn’t Coming to Save Us! Don’t Get Caught Waiting.
Must life go downhill as we age, or do we have a choice?
Yes, life does go downhill, but – -we have some choices in the matter. Not with the eventuality of it, but with the starting point and the pace. The reality is, we took out a death certificate at birth. Or, as retired Stanford geriatric physician, Dr. Walter Bortz once wrote: “Life is a fatal disease. Once… Continue reading Must life go downhill as we age, or do we have a choice?