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What is Take Shape for Life?
Take Shape for Life is a comprehensive program designed to promote healthy changes in your life. The program includes clinically proven Medifast meals with time-tested physician-directed program, with personal support of one [...]
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Posted in Senior Health, Senior News on Mar 30th, 2010
If you feel old beyond your chronological years, you are probably going to experience a lot of the downsides associated with aging…
The saying “You’re only as old as you feel” really seems to resonate with older adults, according to research from Purdue University. “How old you are matters, but beyond that it’s your interpretation that [...]
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Have you ever noticed that when you smile, it is very difficult for people not to smile back? There is real power in a smile. When you smile, your brain relaxes and your Ah Moon acupressure point at the base of your neck opens. If a smile is that powerful, what about laughter? A genuine [...]
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Posted in Senior Health on Feb 26th, 2010
Study indicates green tea consumption could benefit the eye against oxidative stress
Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea — renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties — do penetrate into tissues of the eye. It is encouraging news for the millions of senior citizens battling glaucoma and other eye diseases.
Their [...]
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Posted in Senior Health on Feb 24th, 2010
Frequent hand washing is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick and spreading illness. Hand washing requires only soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer (a cleanser that doesn’t require water.)
When to wash your hands:
As you touch people, surfaces and objects throughout the day, you accumulate germs on your hands. In turn, [...]
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Laughter, it’s said, is the best medicine. And there’s lots of evidence that laughter does lots of good things for us.
It reduces pain and allows us to tolerate discomfort.
It reduces blood sugar levels, increasing glucose tolerance in diabetics and non diabetics alike.
It improves your job performance, especially if your work depends on creativity and solving [...]
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Posted in Senior Health on Oct 15th, 2008
The “relaxtion response” technique was first described 30 years ago by cardiologist Herbert Benson.
At its core, the technique involves sitting quietly with eyes closed for 10 to 20 minutes and repeating silently a word or phrase as you breathe slowly and naturally.
Elicitation of the relaxation response is actually quite easy. There are two essential steps:
1. [...]
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Posted in Nutrition, Senior Health on Oct 10th, 2008
In his 20 years as director of the hypertension program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Randy Zusman has maintained a rather traditional approach.
He writes plenty of prescriptions for standard medications to treat high blood pressure. But in recent years, Zusman has gotten more assertive with patients about lifestyle choices.
“You’re going to have to change your [...]
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Posted in Nutrition, Senior Health on Sep 10th, 2008
7. Use it in Foods
If you cook, you know that there have been many discoveries of brilliant dishes and desserts by combining bizarre ingredients and methods to craft something edible and that tastes good. Green tea has been used to make delicious ice cream, nutritious cake, to garnish some seafood like shrimp, and of course [...]
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Posted in Nutrition, Senior Health on Jul 15th, 2008
Shake your salt habit :
You can adapt to a low-sodium diet faster than you think, reports the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Researchers had 354 volunteers follow three diets for 30 days each. One contained 1,200 milligrams of sodium per day, one 2,300 mg (within the recommended amount), and one 3,500 mg (the amount [...]
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