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Healthy Holiday Recipes for Seniors

December 14, 2022

During holiday season the sight of cookies heaped onto holiday platters is difficult to resist. Never mind the decadent fudges, peanut brittle, and other sugary sweets! Holidays are an epicurean delight, are they not? Alas, metabolisms ran higher in youth and calories were burned in outdoor activities or plotting just how to snag an extra […]

How to Manage the Stress of the Holiday Season

December 7, 2022

Social Media, the press, broadcasts… all address holiday stress during this time of year. Thanksgiving kicks off the holidays and is quickly followed by Hanukkah, then Christmas, and lastly Kwanzaa. As holidays approach Seniors feel the empty places at the table, families too busy to visit, or sadness when hearing a holiday song reminiscent of […]

Seasonal Depression 101

November 18, 2022

It’s the turkey’s fault. According to Camille Styles, author of Lifestyles Daily Blog, ”a turkey food coma has less to do with the turkey and more to do with eating a variety of other foods also containing tryptophan. Thanksgiving is a tryptophan gold mine.” Tryptophan, an amino acid found only in food, induces relaxation, or […]

How to Stay Fit After 70

November 14, 2022

A previous blog extolled the joys of Fall… fresh air, sunshine, a palette of colors, and fun outdoor activities. Was there a message between the lines? A silent intention?… perhaps the intended moral was to remind Seniors enjoyment is simpler when physically fit, especially after the age of seventy. Physical and mental fitness is serious […]

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How to Handle Chronic Pain

November 7, 2022

Pain, as unpleasant as it is, has one positive side. Pain alerts us to problems our bodies may be having. Constant aching, burning, and throbbing elevates discomfort to a new level where pain is impossible to be ignored, also known as Chronic Pain. Chronic pain happens anywhere in the body, changes focus, leads to depression […]

Nostalgic Halloween Costumes

October 27, 2022

“In masks and gowns we haunt the street and knock on doors for trick or treat.” Jack Prelusky, a children’s poet, knew exactly what Halloween is about. The inner child we all carry certainly remembers the days of witches and goblins… or was it princesses and super heroes? Halloween began over 2000 years ago as […]

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