Healthy Aging Thinking Works To Keep Your Mind-Body Alive Do Rocks Have A Vapor Pressure, I Wondered? Time to Google The following made me laugh. Still does. From MadSciNetWork: Short answer: Everything has a vapor pressure. It can be extremely small. The lab joke is, "Tungsten's vapor pressure at room temperature is one atom/universe." I then wondered about the denominator of this equation; is it per piece ... Read more
Beautiful Music With A Broken String? Truth Or Fiction? This is an inspiring tale, whether truth or urban legend. There's no doubt about Scooter, however! We all need inspiration and motivation to prepare for aging. Your strings will break, like it or not. Just keep right on playing your music for as long as you can. ... Read more
Living In Different Worlds On This Beautiful Planet Smart Phone versus knitting. Which is best for your mental health? I postulate that knitting is best, based on the positive power of meditation in my life, and my enjoyment of knitting back in my late 20s (broken leg, stuck in chair for weeks). Learning to turn off the mental chatter is one key to happiness. Phones promote mental chatter, and the ... Read more
I Love This Story, But Not The Outcome! A Lesson Ignored By Pride! Everyone loves a story: Here's a story from my latest book, Prepare For Aging - I find it fascinating! The year, 1846. A salutary tale of a powerful observation, ignored. Extracted from an article, by Rebecca Davis of North Carolina Public Radio. “Our hero is Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor. He wondered why so many women in maternity wards ... Read more
The Lies/Myth As Recently Stated To FitOldDog By A Fellow Veterinarian! "Factory farmed meat is the only way poor people can get enough protein." Eating Meat Is Necessary? You can sign up for my infrequent but informative newsletters at this link! Eating meat is just not necessary, except in certain hostile environments. I can see how ruminant livestock can play a valuable role in the creation of farms with ... Read more
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Exercise For Pain Sure Helped Me Today! I was grumpy all morning. I'd planned a workout, early, but life happened instead. Mid-afternoon, still grumpy, due to stinging pain over dermatomes T2-T5 (see image), I climbed on the ol' CompuTrainer. Forty-minutes later, spinning between 80-200 watts, with pickups and single leg drills, I felt great. Exercise for pain works. I felt so much better. ... Read more
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