All Entries in the "Health & Wellness" Category
How to Talk with Your Doctor
We hope against hope but sooner or later we’re going to be seeing the doctor … probably more often than we used to. The question is, as independent baby boomers with healthy lifestyles, will we take the doctor’s advise seriously? Dr. Bill Roiter says there’s a way to relate to the doctor that will keep us healthy.
Think Differently, Lose Weight
We boomers will never be “old”, but we are aging! As you might have noticed, as people age they tend to gain pounds along with wisdom, so many of us are concerned about our weight and our health. And we are not alone. Two-thirds of Americans today are overweight! 41% of Americans are currently trying to lose weight.
The Golden Ear Mouse
When we boomers say, “We’re different from our parents’ generation; we’re more active, more flexible, more youthful,” we mean it. But are our bodies always listening? Not necessarily, at least not yet. That’s why we’re fascinated by research we read about at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York – “Squeak, Squeak – Can You Hear Me Now?”
Hearts and Minds of Baby Boomers
As the rhetoric associated with health care reform reaches a boiling point, factions are fighting for the hearts and minds of Baby Boomers and seniors, reports Paul Briand for The Examiner.
Baby Boomer Health: The Power of 4
At BoomerCafé we don’t try to improve your health; we simply try to encourage you to live an active, healthy lifestyle. But what we like about this piece by baby boomer Paula Owens, fitness coach and author of “The Power of 4,” is that it does both. Obviously what’s good for some of [...]
No More Little Old Ladies!
Just because you’re hitting, say, 50, you’re not supposed to give up certain things just because you’re over that hump. Same for 60. In other words, don’t live by the inevitable and unstoppable progress of the calendar. Barbara Morris doesn’t, and she’s 80! She has written two books about staying young, [...]
Baby Boomers Hit by Sex Cancers
BBC News reports from London … The arrival of the “swinging 60s” may have heralded a rise in sexually-transmitted cancers, say researchers.
Rates of anal, vulval and vaginal cancers rose for “baby boomers” born in the decades after the Second World War.
The culprit is the human papillomavirus (HPV), acquired during sex, said the King’s College London [...]
Survival and Recovery from Grief
We like to be upbeat … but we also like to be realistic. And realism says, we’re going to start losing the ones we love, if not this year, or even this decade, then the next. How will that affect our jobs, and our performance in the workplace? Jane Galbraith is the [...]
Wigging Out
[Editor's note: Writer Cathy Fischer is our friend, and she is writing with great courage about her personal battle with breast cancer, a challenge that many women face. Cathy is keeping a journal that is being posted on her blog, FiftyIsTheNew.com. Her most recent story is shared with the readers of BoomerCafé.]
Breast Cancer update: I [...]
As A Boomer, How Much Do You Drink?
Is alcohol a tonic or a toxin, asks Jane Brody in The New York Times. The question is especially critical to older people, whose overall medical picture gives alcohol the potential to be a health benefit or a life-shortening hazard.
Yet experts say that doctors rarely ask older patients how much and how often they drink. [...]
Baby Boomers Seek Fountain of Youth
It’s known as cenegenics and it’s catching on among some Baby Boomers as a way to defy aging.
Cenegenics is a hot trend among Google searches and it’s largely because of a desire by society, Baby Boomers especially, to look, feel and act younger, according to reporter Paul Briand.
“As the baby boomers march toward retirement, Botox, [...]
Nightmare Before Christmas
When we talk about boomers with “active lifestyles,” we’re not sure that’s supposed to include what Laurey Boyd recently did to stay healthy. In fact, we’re sure it’s not, because she just suffered through The Nightmare Procedure Before Christmas.
How did I usher in the holiday season this year? Why, with a colonoscopy, of course! Isn’t [...]
Baby Boomers Need Flu Vaccine
Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel have news for you: They are baby boomers, and they recommend that all baby boomers get flu vaccinations this year and every year. It’s important.
Influenza (the flu) kills. Every year in the United States, an average of 36,000 Americans die from flu-related complications and about 200,000 people are hospitalized. Baby [...]
