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"Dare to be a Centenarian" focuses on two key areas of healthy vibrant living: how to attain healthy youthful longevity and support spiritual quest as one advances to senior years. For healthy youthful longevity, the book focuses on the three key areas of vibrant living: aging management to slow down the aging process, wellness management to live a healthy life, and disease awareness for diseases in senior years and old age. For spiritual quest, the...
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"Caring for our Parents and Other Loved Ones" is a 21st century guide covering the countless details in caring for an elderly, ill, or dying loved one. It addresses many vital issues, such as shifts in physical prowess, senior driving skills, discerning mental skills, along with holistic approaches. And with the utmost respect and love, the author includes his own intimate journey in caring for his mother. Whether you are the patient, a loved one,...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that the leading cause for death in 2030 will be cancer, followed by hepatitis and Alzheimer's disease. But in seven years, you'll have a whole new body. How can you make it a good one?
In Your Journey to Aging Well, you'll learn the four major components of good health: water, exercise, quality food, and sleep-and you'll learn how to maximize these components to take control of your health...
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In this groundbreaking book, Sue Brightman beckons us into timely and promising news about women over 50: it's not about aging, it's about becoming more of who we really are and doing what we're called to do. Based on 100 interviews with women age 50-70+, Brightman discovers emerging themes of burgeoning creativity, spiritual growth, and a zesty freedom to experiment with new roles, new businesses, and new priorities. Blasting out of the water the...
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For centuries, humans have been seeking it-that elusive fountain of youth, a cure for old age. From wrinkle creams and cosmetic surgery, to dietary supplements and hormone therapy, entire industries thrive on our reluctance to grow old. We fear losing our vigor, our social network, our memories, our wealth, yes, even our hair! But suppose up to 75 percent of how long we live and much of how well we age is determined by lifestyle? While scientists...
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SUPER-FOOD is a brief guide about different foods that we can easily find in any supermarket and that will help us to keep a healthier lifestyle, as well as keeping our mind in form. This guide is accompanied by some suggestions about these foods, both through simple recipes or by mixing them with other, equally healthy, products. Food that, once incorporated into our daily diets and along with moderate exercise, will help us to achieve fuller...
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Feel like you're in a constant battle with your body, as time rolls by?Feel like career options are more limited, as an older person?Or that somehow, you're less "lovable" or "valuable," now that you've got a few wrinkles on your face?If so, know that it's possible to reframe what "growing older" means to you.Because growing older can mean… absolutely anything you want it to mean.Inside this Life Guide, you'll find tools to support you to shift...
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Are you worried that leaving your career is a road riddled with misery? Discover an uplifting guide to help you enjoy life after work.
Have you recently retired and found yourself emotionally unprepared? Are you anxious about how this new stage will affect your health? Are you concerned you'll lose purpose and meaning in your later years? Board-certified adult and geriatric psychiatrist, and co-founder of Inner Growth Lab Dr. Carolina Osorio has spent...
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Within each of Mother Nature's four seasons, there appears to be a unique ebb and flow to life. This is reflected upon in terms of the seasonal transitions of life from "the womb to the tomb" or "Pampers to Depends." In Season I, "The Springtime of Life," childhood, the spirited teenager and early adult years are described. Going through puberty, leaving the family cocoon, selecting a career, looking for love and facing commitment in the "Age of Aquarius"...
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Written in her characteristically breezy and humorous style, Dr. Ruth expertly explains the unique challenges and opportunities encountered with the onset of middle age, including issues of health, family, and career. Designed for both singles and couples, and employing numerous case studies, Conquering the Rapids of Life candidly offers solid, practical advice to help one cope with the physical and emotional changes associated with midlife.
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This short book is, before anything else, a celebration of the Seasoned Woman. She is a treasure of wisdom and grace who needs to be observed for her beauty and for the abundance of sagacity and benevolence she has quietly demonstrated to those willing to open their eyes and observe. It is she and her students who have kept humanity's careening ship, often manned by drunken sailors, afloat. It is she who has historically been most responsible for...
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How should we prepare for later life? And how should we all, as societies, prepare for our rapidly ageing populations? What are the secrets – personal and national – of growing older happily and well? Award-winning British travel writer Brian Schofield sets off on a deeply personal mission in search of the answers, visiting and interviewing elders in Afghanistan, Tobago, Japan, The Cook Islands, Calabria, Kenya, Tanzania and Florida, to uncover...
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Make the most of retirement with this guided, interactive bucket list packed full of ideas and prompts that will help you fill your days with meaningful, budget-friendly memory-making activities-a perfect retirement gift for new retirees! Retirement can be daunting-how can you make your time as meaningful as possible? Now is the perfect opportunity to focus on YOU and what's important. Featuring 101 fun suggestions to build your hobbies, deepen your...
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After retirement, with time on my hands, I decided to sit down and put in print the thoughts that came my way from one reading and another. Then I ran into some heart surgery-five bypasses-and the question "Why? Why did this happen to me?"
So after that life-saving experience-in those days, when I seemed to be living beyond when I should have perhaps died-I took what I have learned in the past and reflected in that history on what I read in the present,...
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"Who Moved My Dentures?" examines 13 false notions about long-term care and aging in America. Nursing homes, assisted living, continuing care communities... What is fact? What is fiction? Where do I turn for help and information? Through heartwarming stories, "Who Moved My Dentures?" answers all these questions and more!!
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WHY EMBRACE AN ATTITUDE OF INCLINE?
For the first time in history we are not only living longer, everyone has an important choice to make: commit to a meaningful, purposeful life of "Incline" as we get older or believe that a new stage — one of steady "decline" — is inevitable. What is not helping is that in the media and society in general there continues the somewhat negative connotation surrounding the concept of aging. And while, at least...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The vulva is the outside and the vagina is the inside. The transition zone between the vulva and vagina is called the vestibule. The main structures of the vulva are as follows: the mons, the labia majora and minora, the glans clitoris, and the vestibule.
#2 The history of medicine is rife with examples of mansplaining and neglect of the female body. The clitoris,...
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You've been dreaming of retirement your whole life, but have you ever stopped to think what you will do when every day feels like Saturday? Retirement can be scary with the loss of purpose, but it can be a great opportunity to pursue passions you have never had time for. Fill your days with activities that truly bring you joy! Here retiree, author, speaker, consultant, and magician, Galen Metz, shares some savvy strategies on how to make the most...
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