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It’s recipe day — and I want to share a second cranberry recipe I found while looking for cranberry sauce recipes the other day.  It’s for dried cranberries.  Most of the time dried fruit is counter-productive.  There is too much sugar (natural and added) to make it a good weight-loss food.  This recipe calls for…

We already know that vitamins A, C, and E are good for your eyes.  Getting them in your diet will help prevent cataracts, among other eye ills.  The nutrients lutein and zeaxanthin also are helpful.  So are the B vitamins. The B vitamins, especially riboflavin and niacin, help prevent cataracts according the sites I studied. …

Cataracts, that film that grows over the lens of the eye, gradually steals away vision.  Age is the biggest predictor of developing them.  One statistic I found, but was unable to substantiate, said that 75% of people over 60 will develop cataracts.  Yikes!  That doesn’t make our chances look very good. There is a cure,…

We’ve learned that eating foods high in vitamins A, C, and E, as well as getting plenty of  Omega 3 fats, can help with glaucoma. There are other lifestyle changes you can make that will also help. One of the main things you can do is aerobic exercise.  Several studies have proven than running significantly…

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” ~Edward Stanley It’s a matter of investment. In what are you investing your time and effort?  If you make your workout a priority and carve out the time to prepare nutritious meals, you will reap…

We’ve been talking about the importance of eating those raw veggies to prevent age-related eye diseases like glaucoma.  One way we do this at our house is to have a vegetable tray ready-made and ready for snacking. The veggie tray also appears at every lunch and dinner.  You develop a taste for the foods you…

Glaucoma — that curse of age — can steal your sight, one of your most precious senses.  The good news it that there are nutrients that can help you avoid that dreaded disease. I found the basic three eye vitamins are A, C, and E. Lutein and zeaxanthin are the other nutrients that help.  There…

We take our five senses for granted — until age begins to steal them away.  One sense we particularly want to guard is our eyesight.  I know this, because I was recently diagnosed with glaucoma, one of the eye diseases that is usually age-related. Glaucoma happens when the fluid in your eyes builds up and…

Happy Giving Tuesday!  We had Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  Those days were about shopping for bargains and buying more stuff.  Today the focus isn’t on getting, but on giving. We talk a lot on this blog about living a healthy lifestyle so we can live longer, stronger lives.  Why?  If we aren’t doing something…

Some people dream about success… while others wake up and work hard at it. — anonymous I’ve read lots about visualizing success.  Picture yourself as svelte and slim, the articles say, and you will become what you imagine.  There is probably some truth to that. If you focus on your goal instead of on your…
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