What is arthritis?
Arthritis is an inflammatory disease of the bones and the joints. It can happen even in babies but is aggravated by wear and tear of the aging process and physical and psychological stress.
What Is Pain?
Pain is the body’s warning system, alerting you that something is wrong. The International Association for the Study of [...]
I recently wrote about what to do in money emergencies . I now continue with physical emergencies like major earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and similar disasters.
Disasters are by definition sudden and when they happen it may be too late to get the emergency supplies you need. There may be runs on the supplies. The suppliers [...]
This relates to the recent series of articles on saving money. If you live in the modern world you are bound to have money emergencies. It does not mater how much you have these emergencies will arise and the real issue is how to best cope with them.
Given the prevalence of these problems in today’s [...]
I was buying some coenzyme CoQ-10 at Costco. Typically at most places the more you buy the cheaper anything is per pound. In fact that’s even more true of superstores like Costco.
I automatically went to the 200 mg CoQ-10. I always look at the amount you get vs. the price. In this case I intuited [...]
A recent scientific study suggests the more time older people spend engaged in social activity, the slower their motor function declines.
"Everybody in their 60s, 70s and 80s is walking more slowly than they did when they were 25," says Dr. Aron Buchman, a neurologist at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and lead author [...]
I was just talking to a seventy one year old neighbor about how wonderful life is. She agreed only partially talking about the good old days. I asked her if things were in reality better then than now.
I explained that nostalgia was more apparent than real. Life is a question of swings and roundabouts. Some [...]
When you ask people if they prefer a store bought or handmade gift, the majority chose the latter. When you have a birthday, anniversary, baby shower, wedding, or Christmas gift to give, make the gift yourself. Handmade gifts are individualized and come from the heart. They please the receiver as well as allowing you to [...]
Many elderly people suffer from age-related macular (AMD) degeneration. This is where central vision becomes a blur as the macula, the central part of the retina, deteriorates with age. AMD has until now been incurable.
Now good news comes from Northern Island for sufferers of AMD. Queen’s Belfast University academics have helped develop an antioxidant supplement [...]
We live in a world of plenty and often plenty of low quality goods. We, buy and buy and buy often junk we don’t need. Altogether we consume way to much. We buy too many things with not enough quality. I remember going to Tokyo and noticing the high quality of people’s clothes and the [...]
As we grow older the chances are that we end up with joint pains and other symptoms of arthritis. If you have arthritis you probably have tried pain killers, heating pads, drugs such as Celebrex, and supplements such as glucosamine/chondoitin. Arthritis is caused partially by inflammation and anything you can do to lower inflammation will [...]
