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Long & Lean
Exercise. You just can't under-estimate the importance exercise plays in a healthy lifestyle. Yet many people do underestimate the foundation of a good exercise program: flexibility.
Lifting weights and running marathons aren't the only things that can help you live longer and healthier. Stretching improves your flexibility, preventing joints stiffness, promoting circulation, and lengthening muscles and tendons to reduce risk of injury. Taking the time to stretch after you workout helps remove waste products, such as lactic acid, from your muscles and improves your recovery time.
Chinese Exercises Benefit Older Adults
Healthy seniors who practice a combination of Chinese exercises three times a week for six months experience significant physical benefits after only two months, say researchers at the University of Illinois.
Add Good Years to Your Life
A new study shows, not only that healthy behavior can add active, satisfying years to your life, but also details how specific unhealthy behaviors shorten lifespan.
Remodeling for Safety: The Bathroom
As Boomers age, we're helping our parents deal with livability issues. All too soon, we'll be dealing with these issues for ourselves and our spouses. Some of us — the "early aged," who have some sort of injury or debilitating condition — are already dealing with these challenges.
Handy Helpers for Arthritis Sufferers
If arthritis pain makes it difficult to do everyday tasks, such as grasp small lamp switches or insert your key into the lock, these solutions can help. These simple gadgets provide solutions for those with stiff joints.
Getting Seniors Out from Behind the Wheel -- Voluntarily
Over the last six years, crashes involving drivers age 70 and older have jumped by 30 percent in Tokyo. Because it can be tough for family members to take the keys away from their older relatives, it's better for seniors to voluntarily give up driving.
Would You Like to Dance?
Like most people, I dislike exercising even though I feel better when I do it. For me, "exercise" sounds like too much work and becomes yet another demand on my time. Sooner or later, monotony dampens my enthusiasm and I find things to do that seem more important. At least that was the case until I discovered ballet.
This Is Not Your Grandfather's Hearing Aid
If you find yourself constantly going for the TV remote to turn up the volume, you might need a hearing aid, too. Luckily for you, hearing aid manufacturers know you don't want the clunky, ugly versions that have been the de facto standard for so many years.
How to Regain Personal Mobility with an Adapted Car
One in five people will experience some type of disability in their lifetime. When your own or a loved one's personal mobility becomes a problem, the restrictions on your daily life can be overwhelming. Suddenly there are limits on where you can go, what you can do, and who you can visit. Many people in this situation have decided to not let personal mobility limitations get in their way. While life may never be exactly as it was, there are solutions — mobility aids.
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