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
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
By Ellen Dolgen – Are you awake all night, and then dragging through the day with toothpicks holding up your eyelids? Then try not to snooze through this one. Sleeplessness can be a real problem for women going through menopause. In fact, the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) lists trouble
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Ellen Dolgen – The debate over hormone replacement therapy is one that has confounded doctors, confused the menopausal, and, ultimately, jeopardized the health of millions of women. Not on my watch! So buckle up and get ready for a crash-course in all things hormone replacement therapy! First, let’s get
By Randall Sutton – By the time you read this, we’ll be well into the New Year. Positive emotions are running rampant. People are still excited and want to sprout and grow the fresh tendrils of new beginnings. This can only mean people across the U.S. are knee deep in their
By Jennifer Kelly Geddes for Discover and Play Americans are eating out more than ever — and we have our expanding waistlines to show for it. But a restaurant doesn’t have to be a scary minefield filled with fatty caloric dishes. Dining out healthfully simply takes a little planning. “The
How I Gained It: Growing up in the ’60s, eating nutritional, low-fat foods was not a priority for most people, so fat-laden but wonderful homemade meals made up my childhood memories. Having two overweight parents meant that portion control was not important at all, and overeating was a very common thing
By Barbara Franzen – If you’re a mature woman over fifty, you might feel a pull when it comes to indulging yourself: When you were younger and taking care of the kids and up to you eyebrows with your career, all you could do was fall into bed at night,
By Meggie Haneckow − Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease which is incurable. In asthma, the airways remain in the inflamed state and any kind of stimulus can trigger the unwanted symptoms. The muscles become more swollen and tighten the chest which obstructs the airflow passage and causes unwanted symptoms. The only
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