A note to senior couch spuds–get active! Movement is good for your brain. Increased blood flow, resulting from aerobic activity, brings greater amounts of nutrients and oxygen that feed brain tissue. Aerobic exercise has been shown to significantly enhance cognitive skills in areas such as scheduling, planning, and task coordination. Vigorous movement raises levels of [...]
In a recent post, I talked about cross-training your brain. Following up on that theme, I thought it might be fun to tease your little gray cells a bit. Here are five riddles that ought to challenge your synapses to fire with stimulation. So take a gander, give them your best, and then scroll down [...]
Okay—our girlish assets might be slipping just a tiny bit and it seems the migration south has settled firmly around our waistlines and our hips. But, despite such physical rites of passage, our spirits are soaring ever higher as we grow into our ripe and robust splendor as women in our wisdom years.
We boomers share [...]
Unfortunately, like the rest of our body, our brain can get a bit flabby with age. Yep, there’s no denying it—going gray doesn’t necessarily help the little gray cells. But the good news is that we can do something about it!
Just like lifting weights on a regular basis is good for muscle tone, routinely lifting [...]
I wanted to share a book that my friend Carol Stanley wrote, “For Kids 59.99 and Over.” It was released on September 1, 2008 and is available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, and Powell Books.com
Here’s how she describes it:
What is life like as we get towards or past 60? There are many changes occurring in [...]
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