My Mom (who passed away in 2015 at age 94) spent the last three years of her life in a nursing home after falling and breaking her hip. And although those final years were filled with pain and being confined to a wheelchair, she would always say to me with a smile, “I hurt from head to toe, but it’s OK, Sher. I still know who you are.” Amen! Unfortunately, increasing numbers of people...

  Here’s a good one for you. This morning as I was preparing to write today’s blog, I went online to a site that claims to calculate your ideal bodyweight.  I put in my parameters—frame size, height, weight and gender—and guess what. It came back and said I was one pound OVERWEIGHT. Me—the person that consistently eats a healthy diet, works out vigorously six days a week, and at age 57 still wears a size...

  The saying, “Age is just a number” is usually said to comfort and reassure someone who reaches an upper milestone birthday and is feeling old! But recent studies have shown that there’s a lot of truth to that statement. Especially when you’re talking about someone who engages in regular exercise! Although it’s a dreaded word for many people, you can’t deny that regular exercise provides some pretty impressive health benefits, the most obvious being...

  When someone is running low on something, it’s usually not a good thing. This especially applies to nutrients!  Nutritional deficiencies are a cause or contributing factor to just about every disease there is. But there is another deficiency that is often ignored, but being without it can be detrimental, and cause diabetes, weight gain, depression and much, much more. I’m talking about sleep deprivation! Here’s the scoop on this increasingly common problem. [[big3]]Many of...

  I ran 10.25 miles yesterday morning and to say I was sweaty afterwards is a bit of an understatement. As a matter of fact, my son (who turns 22 years old today!) looked at my running shirt that was literally dripping and said laughingly, “Nice, Mom.  You going to wear that to the office today?”  (Wise guy.) All kidding aside, whether we like it or not, everyone sweats from time to time and that’s...

  Being in lockdown for nearly two months has arguably caused as many (or more) health problems than the coronavirus itself. Not only are people overeating, drinking far more alcohol than they usually do, gaining weight and not getting as much exercise (due to gyms and health clubs being closed), but there is also the potential for increased depression and anxiety, suicides, heart attacks and diabetic kidney problems and more. Yet there is another serious...