AHEAD OF THE CURVE AT MIDLIFE- 10 Myths About Single Women Over 50
- Finding Balance and Opportunity in Economic Crisis and Uncertain Times
- The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
- Osteoporosis Drugs Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Fractures and Brittle Bones in Some Women
- Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health – Even If You Work Out
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Mar
18
So which stereotypes about single women are true? The ones about women who’ve never felt more free and happy in their lives, or about those who are lonely, unhappy and inflexible? Before finding out how you – or your single friends – may compare to those in AARP’s study of single women over 45, it’s worth noting that of the 57 million American women 45 and up (2005), nearly half—25 million—are unmarried. While divorce and later marriages account for some of this, it’s also true that women still tend to outlive their spouses and end up alone. And overall, American women are likely to spend more years of their lives single than with a significant other, Read more
Mar
15
Finding Balance and Opportunity in Economic Crisis and Uncertain Times
March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: k daniel
As a veteran global fund-raiser for the Hunger Project, consultant to the Nobel Women’s Initiative to leverage the influence of women Nobel Peace Laureates to advance peace, justice, and equality, and as a trustee of the Fetzer Institute, whose mission is to foster awareness of love and forgiveness and the power of letting go, Lynne Twist has long observed how our relationship to money governs, dominates, and stresses each of our lives. Her Soul of Money Institute is dedicated to helping people find peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money. The video excerpt (below) provides an empowering perspective on how to see what’s unraveling all around us: Read more
Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: k daniel
In a ten year study seeking to understand more attitudes affect our health, a team of researchers from Columbia University has found that, just as negative emotions such as anger, depression, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, feelings of happiness seems to protect the heart. Specifically, the study examined the impact of positive personality traits like happiness, contentment, and enthusiasm on heart disease risk. While previous studies show that negative emotions are predictive of heart disease, researchers wanted to find out if positive affect is protective. They found that the happiest people were 22% less likely to develop heart disease than people in the middle of the scale, that those with the most negative emotions had the highest risk for heart disease, and people who scored highest for happiness had the lowest risk. Read more
Mar
10
Osteoporosis Drugs Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Fractures and Brittle Bones in Some Women
March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: k daniel
Do you know what a “low energy femoral shaft and subtrochanteric fracture” is? If you take a drug like Fosamax for osteoporosis or osteopenia, now is the time to get informed. These words, added to Fosamax inserts, warn that taking this drug increases your risk of fracturing your femur, or thigh bone, even during low impact activities. As the femur is among the strongest in the body, the unusual incidence of fractures in Fosamax users prompted the FDA to require manufacturer Merck to include the warning. For the full story, see yesterday’s ABC World News’ Osteoporosis Drugs, Like Fosamax May Increase Risk of Broken Bones in Some Women. This is only the latest in serious problems associated with this class of drugs, called biphosphonates. Start with our report on the FDA alert last June warning of “the possibility of severe and sometimes incapacitating bone, joint and/or muscle Read more
Mar
9
Long Periods of Sitting Is Harmful for Your Health – Even If You Work Out
March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: k daniel
What fresh hell is this? It seems that the ante has been upped for couch potatoes, people who drive or who sit in front of computers for a living. Specialists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden are finding that prolonged periods of sitting are more harmful than what we’ve heretofore thought of as simply a ’sedentary lifestyle.’ Their new model of “inactivity physiology” suggests that sitting, or non-muscular activity is in a class by itself – it’s not the same as simply ‘not exercising’. Actually, being sedentary – a normal day at home without exercise, carrying groceries, washing dishes, pulling weeds – is looking pretty good by comparison. From the New York Times: It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk Read more
Mar
7
Most New Small-Business Jobs to Have a Woman as Top Boss
March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: k daniel
According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, co-author of Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, and CEO of 20-first, a company that helps organizations develop more inclusive leadership styles, gender-balance in their management teams and better respond to women as employees and consumers – one in three new US jobs in next 8 years is expected to be at a woman-run company Here are the stats from a recent newsletter: Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute predicts that about one-third of US jobs created over the next eight years are expected to be at women-owned small businesses, a projection even the Institute calls “striking”, since jobs at women-run businesses now make up only 16% of the total. More than half of all jobs created by small businesses Read more
Mar
6
Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss & Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition
March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Posted by: k daniel
This is a special post for our special intuitives and Carolyn Myss fans. She is offering an online audio course with Dr. Norm Shealy, The Proven Power of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body’s Energy System beginning on March 16. I attended this course live with these two pioneers in energy medicine and medical intuition years ago, and can tell you that they are a fabulous and potent duo. They are focused and specific in describing energetic anatomy, guiding you through exercises to access intuition, offer perspectives on what may be blocking you, and they do it with trademark humor and compassion. Most of you know Caroline Myss as a legend in the field of intuition and energy healing, but it was neurosurgeon and first president of the American Holistic Medical Association, Dr. Shealy, who pioneered Read more
Mar
5
For some common sense about face lifts we turn to the ancient art of yoga to discover that your facial muscles are like any other muscle – exercise tones them, and regular practice can keep sagging jowls at bay, your forehead smooth and eyelids in place. Who knew! Well, I jest, but I was happy to find this simple routine of facial exercises laid out within easy reach of a bookmark for an on-the-spot workout. And they do double duty by relieving stress in your face, jaws, neck and shoulders. And speaking of relaxing, my cosmetician tells me that the main benefit of facials actually come from the 20 minute massage, which, like exercise, increases blood and lymph circulation in the skin to stimulate nutrient transport and flush toxins from the skin. At my local salon I can opt to only do a 30 minute face (lifting) massage, which includes a light cleansing, peel and a good quality facial cream. It’s always instructive how much moisturizer a massage pushes into your skin – spoons more than the usual dabs I use. Try it for yourself.
Mar
3
Many women who diligently watch their daily intake of calcium from greens, dairy products and supplements to protect their bone health, are unaware that they lose the benefits of their careful attention when they reach for a can of soda – while also increasing their risk for diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. This article is reprinted with the permission of nutritionist and health educator Dr. Judith Valentine, Ph.D., who is delivering a program on bone health and osteoporosis Women Doing It For Ourselves: How to Build Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality with us on aheadofthecurveatmidlife in April. To be on our mailing list for this program, sign in here. You’ll receive our free report, The Selling of Osteoporosis, and we’ll keep you in the loop. Read more
Feb
28
I found this beautifully written essay simple and powerful. Psychotherapist Mel Schwartz describes insights as initiators of change – but only if we pay homage to them. As forerunners of our growth, he says, they need our attention. If we don’t commit to our fragile new insights, we simply aren’t taking ourselves seriously enough.
From time to time, many of us tend to experience an occasional insight. An insight is simply the ability to change our filter and look at things differently. In moments of insight, there’s a sudden burst of clarity where there had previously been static; there is an epiphany of movement. It’s the a-ha moment. When we are firmly entrenched in our beliefs and rooted in our certainty, we’re not typically open to insights. To have an insight we need to temporarily suspend our beliefs and open to new Read more
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