There are a number of things you probably do on a regular basis that, whether you know it or not, are aging you faster. Habits that are making you old before your time. Some of them are easier to notice than others. Some may surprise you. I want to touch on one that involves a rather delicate subject: the toilet. …
I was just watching “Super Soul Sunday” on OWN. Today’s guest was Dr. Christiane Northrup, whom I’ve written about recently. Northrup shared with Oprah an idea from her new book about aging: once a person announces her age, people start putting her in a box and applying certain expectations and limitations based on the number. But as study after study is …
There are women in their 90s who dance, play sports, and laugh a lot. There are also women in their 50s who complain about constant pain and can barely make it down a few steps on their own. The number signifying your age doesn’t determine what your life should be like. It shouldn’t define or constrain what you can do. That …
There is an overabundance of ads on TV telling us that we need this pill or that. Some try to convince us that what was once a normal occurrence is now considered a disease. Some promise to restore function assumed to be lost with age. But do we really need all these medications? Though I don’t buy into the notion that …
I’m forever reading books when I’m supposed to be working on finishing mine. But I ran across a new one by Dr. Christiane Northrup that has a message similar to the one I am sharing in my next book. In the introduction to Goddesses Never Age she reminds us that age is just a number. People in their 30s can act …
Sometimes we get concerned about our memory not being as sharp as it used to be. Maybe it’s a person’s name that we can’t recall. Or an errand we intended to run that slipped our mind. We’ve heard that people lose their memory with age and worry about it happening to us. Well I’m here to tell you that your memory …
In my last post, I referred to a book by Harvard researcher Ellen Langer called Counterclockwise. In that book, she shares findings from a number of studies, including her infamous counterclockwise study on men in their 80s in which remarkable changes took place that seemed to turn back the hands of time. She took two groups of men on a week-long …
There is mounting evidence that our thoughts have an effect on how well or poorly we age. A study conducted in 1996 had two groups of people solving anagrams. In one group, the words were age-stereotype terms like “forgetful” and in the other group, the words were neutral and not age related. After the two groups solved the word puzzles, they …
I don’t know about you, but it really riles me when I hear someone on TV say that we need to keep our waist size below a particular number of inches in order to avoid heart problems. While it’s true that abdominal fat, which seems to creep on us as we age, is more dangerous than other kinds of fat, setting a …
The first time I noticed a change in my memory was when I was teaching in Atlanta. I was in my mid-50s and had been giving college lectures for 20 years when I had my first classroom stumble. I was writing on the board when suddenly I couldn’t think of what the next word was going to be. I paused and …
