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Top Ten Ways to Stay Young at Heart

Many people seek the fountain of youth, but did you know that living a heart-healthy lifestyle could help you to defy your age? Registered Dietitian and best-selling author Frances Largeman-Roth offers her tips for how you can stay young-at-heart through good nutrition. 1. Choose whole grains Include fiber-rich whole grains

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Fad Dieting: America’s Obsession of starving for attention

By Claire Perez – The definition of female beauty has evolved over the decades, from the voluptuous Marilyn Monroe, all the way to waif-life Kate Moss and everything in between.  Although fashion is always trying to tell us that there is some “pinnacle” of female attractiveness, with experience comes the

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80 Ways to Feel Young and Stay Sharp

By Sarah Marchant − Aging is a natural, inevitable part of life. As we grow older, it becomes easy to look back wistfully on years past and wish we could reclaim our youth. While your 20′s may be the peak of physical capability and mental clarity you will ever reach, that doesn’t

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Andrea Warshaw Wernick

5 Steps to Establish a Workout Routine for Better Health

By Andrea Warshaw-Wernick – There aren’t many guarantees in life but working out can be one. By working out, you can see and control your results. And with bathing suit season just around the corner, there’s no better time to hit the gym and start integrating exercise into your every

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3 Ways to Boost Your Health Through Brain Fitness

By Amirah Mercer – Do you see the text right above this sentence asking if you’d like to “Make text bigger”? Now imagine if you were able to train your brain to actually read smaller text, without ever having to rely on that button, or your own reading glasses for

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Marjorie Jaffe

Whatever Your Age, It’s Never Too Late to Begin

By Marjorie Jaffe – Your chronological age may be climbing, but you feel as young as you used to be. It comes as a surprise when the jeans you’ve always worn have somehow, become too tight. You may have heard that, on average, you burn fewer calories each year and

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Workout Options For The Modern Woman

With all the varying workout fads and trends, it’s hard to know which workout options are best for you, and what you gain by getting active. For women in their early 40s to mid-60s, post-retirement physical activity substantially reduces the likelihood of serious illness or physical disabilities. If working out

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What is DHEA? Why and How to use it

DHEA, is an acronym for dehydroepiandrosterone; a naturally occurring pro-hormone produced by the adrenal glands, gonads and the skin – the dermis. DHEA is a base building block for hormones like testosterone and estrogen and about 50 other hormones. DHEA is the most abundant prohormone in the body. Hormones drive

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Andrea Warshaw Wernick

5 Steps to Clearing Your Mind of Clutter

By Andrea Warshaw Wernick – NEW YORK – I often find that I try to do too much at one time, which leaves little time to focus on one particular task that really needs to be accomplished. If you find yourself unable to focus on one task, here are some

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Lifestyles through the Years

By Rosa Mendy – Do you find yourself comparing today’s lifestyles with the way you grew up? “When I was younger…” becomes a staple sentence for us all, over time. It doesn’t necessarily mean, though, that things were better in the past than they are now. Extraordinary changes in the

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5 Things You Should Know About Stretching and Mobility

By Michael Perry – One of the greatest debates in athletic history has to be whether or not stretching is beneficial. I remember when I was in school the latest and greatest technique was bouncing into the stretch, it was part of, not done before the warm up, and feeling

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Do You Have a Personal Anthem?

Readers–today let’s get personal. Though Boomer Highway is a conversation about mind-body wellness and often deals with physical health, it’s also about the stuff that makes us happy, things tangential, our individual choices. Keeping the heart beating is one thing, but filling it with joy is quite another. And it’s so varied,

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Healthy Eating – More than Just Eating the Right Foods

By Shishir Rao – While a lot of emphasis is placed on the nutrition we get from foods, what we don’t realize is that looking at the nutrition value label on the back of a product isn’t enough to ensure a healthy life. As far as the diet goes, we

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The Hip Bone’s Connected To The Thigh Bone… And To Osteopenia?

The big “O” brings to mind mood music, our favorite lover, and moans of ecstasy. For those in menopause and postmenopause, the new “big O” can also bring to mind osteopenia or osteoporosis. You are probably familiar with osteoporosis, but may never have heard of osteopenia. Yet, according to the

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Ellen Dolgen

Light at the End of the Tunnel! Women Orgasm Enhancement

By Ellen Dolgen – Do you love those male enhancement commercials on television as much as I do? Ever notice that the men are 50-something and the women appear to be late 30’s, early 40’s? Is there an unwritten rule somewhere that men should have a healthy sex life until

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Andrea Warshaw Wernick

Time Is Precious: Make Every Moment Count

By Andrea Warshaw-Wernick – Time is the essence of life. Why do people waste it? We must treat time like a special gift. It’s a resource that we can’t buy, rent, borrow, store, save, renew or multiply. All we can do is spend it! And don’t wait until something happens

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Mindfulness and Its Effects on the Body

Submitted by Health2Go – One of the hardest parts of creating a health regimen is sticking to it. We can talk all day about what we’d like to do or what we envision ourselves doing, even going so far as to come up with the series of steps that it

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Carol Doyel

Becoming the Best “You” – You Can Be

By Carol Doyel – As a woman 50+ this is a season that many of us are faced with our own mortality. As we age we face the issues that go along with getting old. I’ve noticed that many of us hit what I’ll refer to as the “peak” years, which I

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Special, Yes You Are!

By Regina Gale – No woman is truly prepared for how great her life will be when she turns fifty. No matter what her life is like, there are some undeniable changes that happen within the life and soul of every woman. During this period, women tend to have the

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