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Aging with grace and beauty. Embrace age with aging advice, tips, and tricks.
Mental Health Insights
Conventional wisdom has it that no matter how hard your work day is, you're supposed to turn into a sociable family member when you get home and "communicate" with your spouse. But a New York University study indicates that complete withdrawal may be a healthy and effective way to cool out after a tough day.
Stephanie GladwellPublished 7 years ago in LongevityHoly Crap I'm 40: Clothing Edition
Fashion at 40, where to begin. The most important rule of thumb being, if you were able to wear it the first time it was in style, it might not be the best idea to be wearing it when it comes back in style. Unless you have a lot of confidence, or you just don't care, or you are a professional model. Even I looked good in a miniskirt in the 80s, but now I would just scare people. It is important to know when to say when. There has got to be a happy medium between the woman who dresses to kill every day and the woman who looks like she is homeless... I am still trying to figure that out, as I am the one who favors the latter. It helps that I only have boys and they love me no matter what I am wearing. I get the feeling that if I had daughter's, it would be an entirely different story. I sense I would get a lot of eye rolls and door slams.
Banji GanchrowPublished 8 years ago in LongevityWill You Make It to Immortality?
You think you're going to die some day? WRONG! Just hang in there; you’ve got this! This is already 2016…by 2045, give or take, we will all be immortal cyborg-things! No, really. We’ll be immortal cyborg-things.
Matt CatesPublished 8 years ago in LongevityDo Facials Help Keep You Looking Young?
Professional facials used to be the territory of the rich and wrinkled, usually administered in pricey private salons that weren't very accessible to or interested in people on more modest time/money budgets. All for the sake of looking young. But the alternative—doing it at home with a store-bought steaming machine—just didn't produce the same results. Deep-pore cleansing was modest; mar-free blackhead removal was near impossible; relaxation and pampering were lost in the effort, as were potential rejuvenation effects.
Mackenzie LuPublished 8 years ago in LongevityWhat is a Slip of The Mind?
I am always confusing my children’s names. There are three of them. At first I thought I was suffering from early dementia. Literally I would have to say all three names before I got it right. Their names had slipped my mind. Mostly when they were relentlessly asking me the same thing over and over again until they got their way.
Wendy WeedlerPublished 8 years ago in LongevityWhy Tai Chi? The Best Reasons to Begin
Imagine yourself standing on on the bank of a calmly flowing river, your mind clear, your body moving with grace and purpose through the space around you. Feel more relaxed already? If you’ve never tried the ancient practice of tai chi, maybe it’s time to begin. Some call it “meditation in motion”, while the Harvard Women’s Health Watch calls it “medication in motion,” but whatever your spiritual and physical state, chances are the low-impact, slow motion exercises of tai chi can improve them. It’s not just for your grandma, either; many young people enjoy the way that tai chi helps them slow down their frantic pace long enough to be mindful of the beauty around them. Here are some of the best reasons to try this ancient practice and find greater peace each day.
Sarah QuinnPublished 8 years ago in LongevityFamily Stress Impacts Your Health
Every family has its share of fights, which can be good since holding back and suppressing negative feelings can make you sick. But if family squabbles go unresolved and become prolonged conflicts, they can create serious stress effects taking a physical toll on the heart, according to a research team headed by Paul R. J. Falger, Ph.D., of the University of Limburg School of Medicine in the Netherlands.
James PortersonPublished 8 years ago in LongevityCelebrities Who Make Aging Look Easy
Getting old is not easy. It sneaks up on you in the most surprising ways. You can't see with your glasses on, your joints creak when you climb the stairs, everything seems to hurt when you get out of bed in the morning. The process is arduous and we live in a society where the act of aging is frowned upon.
Banji GanchrowPublished 8 years ago in LongevityBehaving Like a Normal Homo Sapien
We're all getting older, which is not news. But we're doing it with more resistance, resentment and reluctance then at any other time in human history. And we're worrying about it sooner. My children are constantly asking after my health. They think I eat terribly. On most counts they are right. Bottom line is my kids are more health conscious, at 20 then I was at 40. Ironically science says that the additional worrying they are doing is not in their best interest health wise. Acting your age has become a most ambiguous conundrum.
Frank WhitePublished 8 years ago in LongevitySecrets to Slow Down Aging
Who among us hasn't scanned the mirror, wondering how well our face will age? Surprisingly, it's fairly easy to gauge, as you'll soon discover. And if you don't like the answer? There's a lot that can be done for faces that are prone to rapid aging. There's also a new incentive: In a recent study, people whose faces looked older than their years were found to be biologically older than their birthdays. The punch line: While genes determine what you start out with, how slowly or speedily your face ages thereafter depends heavily on what you do with what you've got.
George GottPublished 8 years ago in LongevityHow to Diet Against Disease
In the late 1980s, an extraordinarily strong case for the medicinal power of food was made by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences. Its three-year review of more than 5,000 scientific studies concluded that dietary changes could substantially reduce the risk of many kinds of illness, including heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and cancer. Today, it is common practice to eat healthily to diet against disease, but there are many misconceptions and exaggerations regarding which foods actually ward off or contribute to health problems. Scientists, doctors, and nutritionists continue to study which foods help us diet against disease.
James PortersonPublished 8 years ago in LongevityHow the Cosmetics Industry is Greening Up
See if you can guess the common theme in these marketing success stories. The Body Shop is an England based chain of skin- and hair-care stores. The first one opened in 1976 on a $6,500 bank loan and offered 15 products packaged in hand-labeled, inexpensive lab-sample jars. Today, the chain's mostly franchised stores number over 400 in some 34 countries and in 1988 had annual sales totaling $500 million. A toothpaste called Tom's of Maine has overtaken Aim as the number-four brand in the Portland, Maine, area, making headlines in The New York Times. Tom Chappell of Kennebunkport, the man behind the six products bearing his name-there's also a deodorant, shaving cream, flossing ribbon, mouthwash and shampoo—has seen his company's sales doubled between 1986 and 1989. Kiehl's Pharmacy is a family-run operation in New York City that's been around since 1851. While the shop Still sells its Own Cosmetics, fragrances and skin-care treatments over the counter and by phone to such celebrity clients as Susan Sarandon, Cher and Tatum O'Neal, they are also available in over 200 stores across the US, as well as in Europe and Japan. Yearly sales are estimated at $3 million.
George GottPublished 8 years ago in Longevity