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Looking, Feeling, and Living Younger

Aging is natural. Cell turnover slows down, collagen production slows down, and your skin starts to dry out. External factors like too much sunlight and exposure to pollutants can speed up the aging process. Here are some tips to help your skin look younger. You might have heard some of these before, but they bear repeating: Avoid direct sunlight. Wear SPF 30 sunscreen and cover up to protect yourself against UV rays. Get your beauty sleep — it isn’t just a clever name. Skin cells regenerate more quickly while you are sleeping! Drink plenty of water! The more you drink, … Continue reading →

Twin Study Shows How We Age Ourselves

The choices you make throughout your life can play a big part in whether you look younger or older than your years. That’s the message from a study on twins and aging from Case Western Reserve University. Researchers looked at identical twins to see how choices like tanning, smoking, and more impacted the way a person ages. According to the study, these behaviors or choices can make you look younger: * Taking birth control or hormone replacement therapy. Estrogen can help increase water retention, and the more hydrated your skin is, the smoother it will look. * Using sunscreen. There … Continue reading →

Are You Ready to Live to 100?

A new report from the Danish Aging Research Center says that blowing out 100 candles might become old news for kids in developed countries. Life expectancy has been on the rise for residents of developed countries over the last two hundred years or so. If that trend continues, says researchers from the University of Southern Denmark’s Danish Aging Research Center, then hitting your one hundredth birthday could become old hat. They say that most babies born since 2000 in developed countries like France, Germany, Italy, the U.K., Japan, the U.S., and Canada have a good chance of living to see … Continue reading →

Your Skin in Your 50s

Once menopause hits, you can expect your skin to change dramatically. The average age at which a woman reaches menopause is fifty-one… so your fifties is a time for big changes! Some changes you can expect in your skin in your fifties: The cell turnover slowdown that started in the forties continues into the next decade and beyond — the dead skin cells are slower to leave and the new cells are slower to replace them. This can leave skin looking dull and feeling dry. Skin is much dryer, thanks to the body’s hormonal changes and continuing cell turnover slowdown. … Continue reading →

The Right Foods to Fight Aging

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Are you prepared to grow old gracefully? Or would you rather fight it, kicking and screaming? You don’t need expensive treatments and strict regimens to feel and look younger — the right diet choices can make a huge impact on your health! One of the best things you can do is drink more water. I know, I tell you this all the time… but water is SO good for you! Here are just a few benefits of water: As you age, your sense of thirst can become less acute — so you don’t realize it when you are becoming dehydrated. … Continue reading →

What Helps You Feel More Grounded?

We all have activities and coping mechanisms that help us feel more grounded—those things we can do when we start to feel restless, unsettled, or as though we would fly off the face of the planet if it wasn’t for gravity! What do you do to make you feel more settled and grounded? If you’re looking for some ideas to help you during those unsettling times, here are some suggestions: I tend to either clean house or sort and purge when I am feeling ungrounded. I have to admit that the feeling does not come to me as often as … Continue reading →

Starting Over in a New City

Sometimes, a newly divorced person or someone who has lost a spouse will move to a new city. When kids are involved, moving to a new city can be exciting and adventurous but it also means making new friends, going to a new school, starting at a new church, and moving into a new home. The bottom line is that today, every year, one out of five families in the United States move. As the single mom or dad, your responsibility now becomes making the move as seamless as possible. The number one mistake parents make when moving with the … Continue reading →