Savvy-Boomers

Often times you will find that you neglect your fitness as you get older.  Frequently a job or family issues will distract you from exercising. These fitness tips will help you get on track and get back into shape.  Working out often takes a back seat to career and family responsibilities but if you are [...]

 
Every year our life span seems to be getting longer and longer but what good is it if you don’t stay healthy and fit?  There is no way to enjoy those extra years if you aren’t strong and fit so what’s a person to do?  Here is a list of five things that will help [...]

3 quick questions:
1. Are you a guy or do you know one close to you over the age of 35?
2. Have you or he looked at your/his bare chest lately?
3. If so… did you see them?…The dreaded….
“Manboobs”?
Obviously if you are female this is not an issue. But for us men, “gynaecomastia”, often jokingly referred to [...]

Yes you can eat for weight loss.  Eat the right kind of food in the right quantities and you will see the weight come off.  That doesn’t mean that you have to eat lots of one kind of food and it doesn’t mean that if you change your diet you will lose weight.  What it [...]

 
Practical Life Extension
There’s an old proverb that rings with wit and reason: “Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die.” So why do we want to live forever? According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, author of “Chasing Life” and CNN’s Senior Medical Corespondent, we do not.
The real quest isn’t eternal life on [...]

 
The really big problem with most fat loss plans is that the food is drab and unremarkable.  Most of the foods that are recommended won’t do much to accelerate fat loss and they just are not very interesting.  Take a look at some of the most recent cookbooks and you’ll find they don’t have recipes [...]

The Center for Disease Control has recently issued a report that points out that nearly half of Americans between 55–64 have high blood pressure and are over weight.   With these two problems together there is a major increase in the occurrence of heart disease and stroke and it may well be tied to the alarming [...]

This year we are seeing an increased incidence of flu cases throughout the country.  Some of these cases of flu are the more traditional seasonal flu that we see annually in the cooler flu season  and unfortunately this year we have seen the arrival of H1N1 which is usually referred to as “swine flu”.  There will [...]

Hiking within the city limits on urban hiking trails may not require as much equipment as do the longer cross country treks but it’s still a good idea to be well prepared especially if you decide to tackle some of the steeper mountain trails like those found in The Phoenix Mountain Preserve in Phoenix, Arizona. When [...]