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May 2nd, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
“Boomeritis” refers to injuries to older amateur athletes from the baby boomer generation. In this Mind Your Body episode, I interviewed Dr. Moshe Lewis, a California pain management and rehabilitation specialist who most often treats baby boomers with back and knee pain—as the body ages, wear and tear happen. To counter aging, he recommends the triple threat of 1) heat to increase blood flow 2) ice for its natural anti-inflammatory powers and 3) activities in water to maintain buoyancy and offset gravity.
Are you a well-intentioned “weekend warrior?” Great! You’re receiving benefits that boost mood, reduce stress, increase muscle and cardiovascular health and provide social stimulation. Sporting on weekends only, however, increases the risk of a muscle strain, ligament tear or joint injury. To keep problems at bay, Dr. Lewis recommends that you…
1. Reach for the Sky: Stretching is the first step in a warm-up routine to prepare the muscles for the work they are going to do and prevent muscle strain injuries. More advanced stretching exercises like yoga and Pilates also improve your balance, core strength, back strength and conditioning for the spine.
2. Pump It Up: Strength training builds endurance, providing resistance for muscles to function at their full capacity. To build strength and bulk, gradually move to higher weights with fewer repetitions. When using heavier weights, don’t forget to rest and pace yourself.
3. Know Your Condition: Even slight, simple aerobic conditioning will change both your weekend performance and your everyday energy level. Activities like light jogging, hiking and rowing are easy, low-impact ways to optimize cardiovascular health and limit damage to the cartilage and joints while burning calories, thereby mobilizing muscles naturally. Aerobic fitness classes, dance classes, golf, tennis and cross-country skiing provide sound cross-training of multiple muscle groups simultaneously.
4. Consider Supplements: From Omega 3s to glucosamine to antioxidants to vitamin D, the right nutrition and dietary supplements can make a big difference in your sports performance and your general wellbeing. Always consult your doctor first.
5. Have Happy Feet, Healthy Feet: Good ergonomics, posture and even shoes can make or break your technique. Consider seeing a podiatrist for advice on inserts and shoe wear, especially if you have foot pain. An investment in proper foot support encourages long-term orthopedic health.
6. Follow the Fun Factor: It’s far easier to keep up on your regular conditioning if you genuinely enjoy it and look forward to it. Mix it up and try different activities like swing dancing, Zumba, kayaking or dog Frisbee—the last one is another great reason to adopt a dog from a shelter!
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April 30th, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
Visit http://www.MindYourBody.tv with Stephanie Stephens for more how-to video episodes, audio podcasts and blogs on female baby boomer health and lifestyle topics, created especially for you.
Approximately 200,000 people underwent bariatric or weight loss surgery last year. If you’re considering it, meet Dr. Scott Cunneen, director of bariatric surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
His new book is Weighty Issues, Getting the Skinny on Weight Loss Surgery. It’s written in understandable and friendly language and I’ll bet it answers (almost) every question “in the book” about bariatric surgery. It’s also written from questions his patients have asked him—questions you may be asking yourself if you’re considering a bariatric procedure. Here’s the statistical skinny on the obesity epidemic in this country.
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) says…
–Almost 34 percent of adults age 20 years and over are obese.
–More than 34 percent of adults age 20 years and over are overweight (and not obese).
–The Obesity Society says…
–Obesity is responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans each year.
–Costs attributable to obesity and overweight have been estimated at $270 billion annually, including direct medical costs and indirect costs, such as absenteeism and productivity losses.
–A LifeGoesStrong.com poll says approximately 36 percent of us baby boomers are obese.
According to MedScape, the growing rate represents a pandemic that needs urgent attention if obesity’s potential toll on morbidity, mortality, and economics is to be avoided.
Is Bariatric Surgery for You?
Dr. Cunneen’s patients come in because of deteriorating health. “They’re diabetic, hypertensive, at risk for heart attack and stroke, their kidneys are failing, their hips and knees are shot from carrying so much extra weight. They have gall bladder problems, back problems, sleep apnea—or any combination of the above.”
They ask and he tells them about these types of surgeries:
1. restrictive: Your stomach is made smaller, and food is processed normally in your system.
2. malabsorptive: Your mouth is hooked up to your colon and food goes virtually from your mouth straight into the toilet. If you think these more invasive surgeries sound rather extreme, you’re right.
Fantastic Gastric
He then explains these popular procedures:
1. gastric band (or lap band): An inflatable band limits how much food you can eat.
2. gastric bypass surgery (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass): The small intestine is cut to about 1½ to two feet below your stomach and is attached to the new, small stomach pouch created by surgery.
3. sleeve gastrectomy: It removes approximately 90 percent of your stomach. A tube connects your esophagus to your small intestine.
4. gastric placation: This newer procedure doesn’t cut the stomach, but folds it in on itself, reducing its size.
In this video, Dr. Cunneen explains that the journey only begins with a procedure. “Losing weight to reclaim your health requires a huge commitment and a complete change of lifestyle with regard to food…In the long run, is it worth it? You bet it is!”
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April 30th, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
Visit http://www.MindYourBody.tv with Stephanie Stephens for more how-to video episodes, audio podcasts and blogs on female baby boomer health and lifestyle topics, created especially for you.
As a fellow baby boomer, maybe you remember when grocery stores weren’t an entire city block long and didn’t contain thousands of products, but hundreds. I remember the plain A&P store in Charlotte, N. C., around which I’d dutifully follow my mom, “helping” her fill her cart.
Now a trip to the store can be a dizzying experience, one which also places more responsibility on us to be highly informed shoppers, says internationally-known Ashley, Koff, R.D. She’s on what she calls her “Qualitarian” mission, and it doesn’t include (bad for you) processed foods. Did you know, for example, that nearly 10,000 new processed food products are introduced each year, with plenty of savvy marketing punch behind them?
Pick and choose smartly:
This extensive variety elevates the chore of reading food labels to an entirely new level. You don’t love them either? Here’s Koff’s astute suggestion: “Don’t buy food with labels. Buy food in its whole form.” Easy, isn’t it? We both already know that an egg is usually an egg, and that fruits and vegetables don’t have labels—unless they’re designated “organic.” She recommends food in its “whole food form.”
When reading labels, Koff says, think of a downward pyramid while being cognizant of “optimal nutrient balance.” The first on the label ingredient is the main one, and so on, down the lines of the pasted-on nutritional grid.
You may already know that dangerous fast food ingredients that have been linked to various cancers and/or obesity include MSG, trans fat, sodium nitrite, BHA, BHT, propyl gallate, aspartame, Acesulfame-K, Olestra, potassium bromate, and food coloring Blue 1 and 2, Red 3, Green 3, and Yellow 6.
Read the labels on grocery store products and you’ll recognize some of those same culprits. Why, asks Koff, would we eat anything artificially “blue”?
Skip the GMOs:
Koff believes food is the body’s protector. We eat so much of it, it’d better be good. “Give the body what nurtures it,” she says. And she encourages open lines of communication between you and your doctor. If, for example, your lab results show troubling high cholesterol numbers, maybe you and your physician try to adjust diet first. “Diet is the foundation to help prevent and manage chronic disease,” she says.
In this video, she explains more about foods we should eat:
*organic
*non-genetically modified organisms: In North America, over 80 percent of our food contains GMO!
*plant-based vegan
*supplements: If you take supplements, remember they don’t replace anything, and “they have to be as high quality, if not higher, than your food,” she says.
For a primer in sound, basic nutrition, see her “Nutrition for Optimal Energy” plan. Enjoy one of two stories with the vivacious and magnetic Ashley Koff. And eat well!
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April 30th, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
http://www.m7secret.com There is strong evidence to support that the baby boomer generation will be the key driver in the coming population explosion and will comprise a much larger share of the world population.
The first of the baby boomers reached 65 in 2011 and by 2030, the 65 and older will number one in five. Most experts agree that the dietary needs of people in their 50s or 60s are different from those in their 70s and 80s. SO for baby boomers or those approaching middle age, diet and nutrition is going to be a very important aspect of this life.
Although many people enjoy a generally healthy mid life, age-related health problems do increase with advancing years and often have an effect on eating habits.
There is an amazing amount of evidence to show that an optimal level of nutrition can extend the lifespan and improve the quality of life.
Good eating habits in general throughout life can greatly help promote physical and mental well-being. And for those entering mid-life, eating right can help to minimize the symptoms of age-related change that, for some, can cause discomfort or inconvenience.
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April 3rd, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
Nationwide search for inspiring and revealing career changes and re-inventions, given the new economic and social realities for the boomer generation and 50+ . http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nextracks/138890629495353?v
Inspired by the Dennis Hopper commercials and his embed reporting on the CSNY reunion tour, real life stories and new social network for helping the boomers make their Nextracks transitions.
Profiles include:
- Neil Young on a reunion tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
- Frances Mayes’ restoration of a house and her life in Italy for her bestseller “Under the Tuscan Sun.”
- former Indiana Governor Joe Kernan running a minor league baseball team
- Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart composing a soundtrack for the Smithsonian and a Deadheads guide to “Going Down the Road.”
- Cindy Joseph, a top fashion model for Ford Models at 59, defying age barriers in the workplace.
- Barry Meinerth, a retired TIME, Inc. executive, following his passion for animals on a Vermont Alpaca farm.
- Bill Pinkney giving something back by sailing around the world solo to inspire inner-city students.
Comments and story suggestions welcomed for this ongoing conversation and Nextrackers blog launch January, 2011. info.nextracks(a)gmail.com
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April 3rd, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
A Baby Boomer wants to thank the founders of ViSalus for their products. Since she has been on ViSalus and the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge, her health has improved dramatically. http://mleannah.bodybyvi.com
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April 3rd, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
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February 26th, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
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February 14th, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
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Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers; four of these have been #1. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” — often misattributed to Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural address — is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers. Marianne’s latest New York Times Best Seller is A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever. A Course in Weight Loss was selected by Oprah to be one of her Favorite Things in 2010.
Marianne’s other books include The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America andThe Gift of Change.
Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose.
In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the 50 most influential baby boomers.
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February 14th, 2012 -- Posted in Healthy Diet |
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How to Shop at the Grocery Store
Assuming you can’t get to a farmer’s market year-round, it is important to know the healthiest way to shop at the grocery store, as well as what should be in your shopping cart by the time you check out. It’s a skill that many of us have either forgotten or don’t pay much attention to. But living a healthy lifestyle depends upon making sure that what you baby boomers have in your shopping cart is foods that will work for your body, not against it!
When you go shopping, you want to come home with whole foods that are not processed. Processed foods usually contain too much salt, fat, and unnatural ingredients. Whole foods are those that nature has provided for us to eat, and they are in their natural state. When you go to the grocery store, try to stick to shopping the perimeter of the store, where you will find the dairy, meat, and produce departments.
Now that’s not say you have no need to go in the middle aisles because there are some good things, such as dry beans, whole wheat pasta, nuts, and high fiber cereal, mixed in with all the processed foods. But try to get most of your groceries from the perimeter of the store, only stopping down specific inside aisles to grab a few things.
Here’s some of the top healthy foods that all baby boomers should be shopping for:
Proteins. Making sure you have good sources of protein is essential. Opt for things like wild salmon, fish, beans, lentils, tofu, low fat yogurt, quinoa, and nuts.
Carbohydrates. Many people think carbs should be out, but that’s not the case. You want to make sure to reach for healthy whole grain sources of carbohydrates, such as oatmeal, quinoa, whole wheat bread, brown rice, and high fiber cereal.
Fats. There are good fats and bad ones. Stick to the good sources of fat, such as olive oil, nuts, and avocadoes.
Others. Other healthy ingredients that you should have in your basket include green tea, turmeric, and lots of fruits and veggies. Green vegetables especially, such as spinach, kale, and broccoli, pack a powerful nutritional punch that your body needs.
Keep in mind that each of these foods above provides your body with something it needs, as well as helping to keep you healthy. Some help people avoid cancer, while others fight inflammation. When you fill your grocery basket with these healthy foods, you will be well on your way to maintaining a healthy body. Now you just need to focus on preparation, and if you are bored of the same old dishes, try doing an online search for some recipes, or check out a cookbook at your local library!
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