“Sorry I haven’t the time right now.” That was Marguerite Patten’s response to her doctor after he told her that surgery on her painful and severely arthritic hip was the only solution. Even at age 78 and badly disabled, she was determined not to go down the orthodox route. Instead [...]
There are plenty of studies that show that sitting too long in one place is bad for your health. Still, there is one place you should sit that can soothe the mind, improve your heart, add to your life-expectancy and even drop your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The healthiest place [...]
A distinguished businessman in my little town recently passed away from a heart attack. He’d run into some terrible business reverses, after years of having been very successful and admired. I suspect these painful, humiliating events helped lead to his heart attack. Since he was almost exactly my age, the [...]
“Age takes away all things, even the mind,” wrote Virgil in 70 BC. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can retain good mental function throughout life by making healthy food and lifestyle choices. One of these choices relates to a particular type of fat. It’s been the [...]
