A list of vitamin do’s and don’ts can help you to decide which vitamins you need and which vitamins and nutrients you can get by eating a well balanced, healthy diet.
Your nutritional needs will also change as you age, become pregnant or face illness.
Choosing the right supplements and foregoing the unnecessary will lead to optimal wellness.
Baby boomers housing issues is a growing topic as the population ages and needs change.
“Unassisted Living: Ageless Homes for Later Life” (the Monacelli Press; $45) written by Wid Chapman and Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld not only offers ideas but designs as well.
Read the whole interview here.
The 72 million American baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are turning 65 at the rate of roughly 10,000 a day, and many are considering not just how to age (with or without annuities? soy sauce? crow’s feet?), but also where. Wid Chapman, an architect, and Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld, a gerontologist who specializes in the relationship between aging and the built environment, collected 33 examples of residences that have been recently designed to bridge the distance between one’s vital and declining years.
Beyond getting a colonoscopy starting at age 50, what can you do to prevent colorectal cancer? A lot, it turns out. The good news is that colorectal-cancer-preventing habits are nearly identical to those that help your heart.
There are ways to prevent colorectal cancer and a few dietary and lifestyle changes is all it takes.
Avoid red meat
There’s something about eating red meat—a lot of it—that seems to harm the intestines.
Numerous studies have linked red-meat consumption to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, as well as diets heavy in processed, salted, smoked, or cured meats such as bacon, sausage, and hot dogs.
If you just can’t live without red meat, limit yourself to two 4-ounce portions each week, but choose lean cuts, trim the fat, and don’t char it on a grill.
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. believes that heart disease is a food borne illness and the only way to prevent the disease is through diet.
Former president Bill Clinton recently talked about his vegan diet and his belief that a meat free and dairy free lifestyle has saved his life.
Hospitals are beginning to offer alternative health care.
You may not be able to choose untested herbal treatments but alternative therapies with a history of positive results are beginning to show up in hospital services.
What hospitals choose to offer runs the gamut, from well-known therapies such as acupuncture to less familiar treatments like reiki, in which practitioners channel a patient’s energy by placing their hands on or just above specific locations on the body.
Patient demand is the top reason hospitals offer complementary and alternative therapies, cited by 85 percent. Clinical effectiveness? That comes in second, at 70 percent.
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