The tide of popular thinking on aging is beginning to turn. It is no longer accepted that aging has to be a downhill slide. If you begin taking care of yourself at an earlier age, your advanced years can be happy, healthy and productive.
Packed into a relatively small space is a myriad of complex and coordinated muscles, tendons, ligaments, tissue, fluids, blood vessels, nerve fibers, and glands that bring us immediate information about the world around us; our eyes. How our eyes work and what allows...
The brain is one of the most amazing organs in our body. Just thinking about the infinitesimal daily functions it controls on a minute-to-minute basis is mind-boggling. The brain runs the body like your hard drive runs your computer. Electrical and chemical signals...
Many of us have heard of "losing your nerve" but losing your bone is quite another matter. Osteoporosis, a condition that causes bones to become thin and brittle, is characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue. As many as two million Canadians are...
Back pain can be one of the most frustrating things to deal with because your back affects your every move, sitting and standing. And when back pain strikes, you can't do either for long without aggravating it. There are so many ways you can hurt your back, some...
Introduction "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!" - George Burns Many have searched for the fountain of youth and failed because they didn't know one very important thing; it's already within your grasp. Staying active...
Introduction Most people understand the necessity of nutrition during the early stages of life and how good nutrition can impact your health and vitality as you move through the decades. However, once in our sixties, nutrition seems to fall from the forefront of daily...
Introduction Every minute of every day our body is exposed to bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can gain entry to our body either through open areas on the skin or by being ingested via our respiratory or digestive passages. Some of these minute microbes are benign...
All of us, no matter what our age, occasionally experience jogs of memory, irritations while completing normal day-to-day taskings, and changes in the way we behave and feel. It is commonly held that this is a normal part of aging as well. However, it really isn't and...
Lupus is included in the category referred to as autoimmune diseases; a disease in which the body's immune system loses focus and begins to attack otherwise normal, healthy, nondescript, harmless tissue. Somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million Americans are thought to...
Introduction If an alien life form were to look at a human brain, it might dismiss it as so much useless tissue, simply there as filler. But the unimpressive appearance of a human brain belies its myriad of remarkable abilities. The brain is the "grand central...