Fit, Fabulous & Over Fifty

Are You Getting Enough Calcium? This essential mineral is key to bone health and much more. Learn how to keep your calcium stores strong. If you count on dairy for bone-supporting calcium, chalk it up to compelling advertising. Remember the

Insomnia: What to Do When You Can’t Sleep There are few things worse than spending your nights tossing and turning. Whether it’s anxiety about work, stress about financial woes or just plain insomnia, when you can’t sleep, the repercussions are

Coping with Knee Pain First, let it be known to all that I am not a doctor or even close to a qualified medical expert. What I am offering here are some tips for coping with knee pain from someone

How Much Exercise Prevents Depression? Add depression prevention to the growing list of ways that exercise can be an effective form of depression treatment. A newly-released study finds a direct link between staying active and recovering from mild to severe

5 Tips to Get a Good Night’s Sleep Sleep is vital to our health and well-being, yet more than a third of Americans aren’t getting enough. Hundreds of biological processes occur while we snooze — and missing out on them

Get this: Back in the days when humans relied on instincts and bodily responses to stay out of harm’s way, stress was useful. However, the body can’t distinguish between real threats (being chased by a hungry wild beast) and false

Top 5 Foods That Cause Brain Fog You’ve been there too, I know! It's brain Fog!   Those days you just can’t seem to focus on one task, you cannot find your keys – again! After several cups of coffee, you

How to Treat a Sunburn Sunburn or burned, in my case and so many others with pale skin.  When I think about how I (and so many other boomers) mistreated our skin when we were younger, I cringe. Sun reflectors,

Steps You Can Take Now to Manage Stress Doctors, scientists, and the media warn us that stress is toxic and that ‘We Must Calm Down’ or suffer the health consequences. This causes a dilemma for many of us. How many

Does Your Child Have Knee Pain? Osgood-Schlatter Disease + 7 Natural Pain Relief Remedies Does your child complain about knee pain? Osgood-Schlatter disease is a common health condition found in growing adolescents, usually those who are experiencing growth spurts. It