Hi Folks,
I read in the September 18, 2011 issue of Bottom Line Secrets (http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/el/bls_signup.html) that shopping is good for your health. As I am one of those folks not particularly fond of shopping I read the short little article with some skepticism.
It seems that researcher, Yu-Hung Chang, PhD of the Institute of Population Health Sciences in Taiwan did a study of 1800 adults 65 years old and older about their shopping habits. He found that those who shopped every day had a 27% lower risk of death than those who shopped less often. And (you’re not going to believe this) men benefited from daily shopping more than women, 28% compared with women 23%.
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Hi Folks,
How are you holding up during all this financial upheaval? Or, more to the point, how is your retirement income holding up? 
You know, the part of all this that bothers me most is that no one seems to known how to fix it. And if there is someone out there that does have a good plan to get us back on track he probably wouldn’t be heard.
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Hi Folks,
Most of my friends are retirees - not all, but most. This is not intentional on my part, that is just the way it is.
It’s difficult keeping non-seniors and non-retirees in your circle of friends after you retire. Your life style so changes after you retire that little by little you have less and less in common with your old friends and workmates that are still employed. So after a while you have moved out of their circle. Retirement does that.
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Hi Folks,
Years ago when people started talking about walking for exercise (this was in the 70s when you couldn’t even buy “walking shoes”) – most old timers just snickered because walking was something they had done all their lives to get from one place to another and for pleasant little relaxing strolls.
Now, 35 or so years later, walking is one of the most popular exercises going. My office window looks out over a nice sidewalk at the edge of my lawn and it has walkers on it from early morning until late evening.
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Hi Folks,
I am not a financial advisor – I have a financial advisor (and a darn good one) but, for some reason, most of my friends (retired and those still working) do not use financial advisors. Some of them have stock brokers, some manage their own 401k accounts, some manage their savings using mutual fund accounts and, I’m not sure, but I think one of them uses the old “under the mattress” system .
Lots of folks don’t like to discuss the way they manage their retirement money. I guess they think they would have to explain and/or defend their method of money management. But over the years I have collected a few pieces of good advice from these people (except from the guy with the lumpy mattress) about how they calculated their retirement income and expenses and whether they had enough to retire on. I am not going to try to explain these tidbits of advice, heck, the experts write books explaining these things. I’ll just pass them along to you.
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Hi Folks,
Please don’t click off this article. Read it through and then take some time to think it through. This new fun way for seniors to stay fit may be just the thing you have been looking for as a way for having some great family time, stay fit and encourage your kids and grand-kids to enjoy keeping in shape.
Many seniors are more physically fit than their grown children and even their grandchildren so this is a great opportunity to encourage them to get fit while having fun. And your grand-kids will love teaching you about video games. What have you got to lose?
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Hi Folks,
Think healthy eating is all about dieting and sacrifice? Think again. Eating well is a lifestyle that embraces colorful food, creativity in the kitchen, and eating with friends.
For seniors, the benefits of healthy eating include increased mental acuteness, resistance to illness and disease, higher energy levels, a more robust immune system, faster recuperation times, and better management of chronic health problems. As we age, eating well can also be the key to a positive outlook and staying emotionally balanced.
The above is an excerpt from a wonderful, informative article that I discovered in an article published by HELPGUIDE.org, entitled Senior Nutrition – The joy of eating well and aging well.
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Hi Folks,
While researching information on winterizing our homes (for later this fall) I came across some great information on saving energy that I though I should pass along to you. And, of course, saving energy is not only good for the environment but also saves us a barrel of money.
The following are some tried and true ways of saving energy and money. Nothing new here, a lot of us have heard them before, but truth be known most of us have not taken the time to put them in place . . . . It’s just sort of like throwing our money away.
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Good News Folks,
Older Americans lead all age groups in well-being according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is the first and largest survey of its kind, with 1000 calls made each day, seven days a week, giving a daily measure of people’s well-being at the close of every day.
Well-Being is defined by Dictionary.com as: a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity.
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Hi Folks,
I really, really get tired of self proclaimed experts and their conflicting advice on what to do to stay healthy. A few weeks ago I read a short article that proclaimed that taking vitamin and mineral supplements was not necessary – a waste of time and money. It stated that most of us get all the nutrients we need from our diet. That’s strange because the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) took that position some twenty years ago and has since reversed that position. I understand that now JAMA is advising all adults to take at least one multivitamin pill each day.
I read that almost 80 percent of Americans do not eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, the recommended minimum amount believed to provide sufficient essential nutrients. It would seem then that vitamin deficiency is a risk factor in the general population and especially the elderly.
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