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My heart is heavy and broken.This morning we lost our adopted son to a motorcycle accident.He entered our family a few years ago as a lost young man who was my son's best friend. He wanted to finish out high school At Lyman High with our son & friends so we invited Kenny to live with us.As his family moved to another town . Trust me with two teenage boys it was a challange. Kenny settled in and...

A lot of what I thought was aging (feeling tired, stiffness, headaches, joint pain and depression) was nothing of the sort. Instead, I was suffering from surplus body fat and sustained inactivity. Why, if the refrigerator hadn’t been 20 feet from the sofa, I wouldn’t have gotten any exercise at all. Along comes Dr. Henry S. Lodge who confirms in his book, Younger...

It's taken me a few days to be able to sit here and type this.As many of you know from my pasts blogs I have a dog named Bruno. We lost him Thursday night.He fought his final battle and lost. I was in bed drifting off to sleep when I heard my husband holler out honey get up Bruno is hemoraging we gotta get him to the Emergency Vets.I jumped up in a panic and threw on clothes from my hamper (no...

Today I, as a baby boomer, mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; life isn't always fair; and...

Perhaps so. Researchers studied middle-aged adults who were placed on a low-fat, low-calorie diet (1,200 calories for women and 1,500 for men). After three months, the subjects who drank two glasses of water before breakfast, lunch and dinner lost an average of 15.5 pounds, compared to the non-water drinkers who lost 11 pounds. The difference occurred because the adults who drank water ate 75-90...