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How to Avoid Jet Lag? Go West (and Other Tips)

Posted on 06/10/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | TravelHaving just returned from a two-week vacation to France, I wish I could tell you that I found a great solution to the problem of jet lag, especially because scientists say that older people fare worse with a big change in time zones. Unfortunately, I have no magic answers (other than lots of coffee), although researchers are studying ways to help vacationers traveling overseas this summer. The one thing that does make a difference they say: Traveling west, to an …

Eric Spector: Just Call Him Ironman

Posted on 06/7/2013 by | Best Life | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal Health | Your LifePeople like Eric Spector amaze those of us who consider a slow walk up a moving escalator to be a real workout. The California businessman challenged himself to complete 10 kick-butt athletic events in a single year—his 65th. “I’ve never heard of anyone attempting a mix of 10 such demanding run, bike and swim events in a given year—let alone their 65th,” he says. Me, either. Spector rejects the label of elite athlete, describing himself as “just someone committed to …

The ‘Best of Everything’ Top 25 Playlist: Music to Make You Move!

Posted on 06/7/2013 by | Best of Everything After 50 | Comments

Personal Health | Your LifeOkay, so you’ve made a commitment to exercise more, bought a new pair of running/walking shoes,  gotten the green light from the doctor, have your iPhone (or some other smartphone) strapped around your arm or waist, and watched “Running After 50” from “The Best of Everything” AARP YouTube series for motivation and inspiration. You’re ready to rock and roll . . . but . . . wait! There’s one more thing . . . Before heading out the door, you …

Killer Heat Is Coming: Are You Prepared?

Posted on 06/7/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Personal HealthIs it me, or is it getting hot out there? Federal health officials said this week that our summers have been getting more intense lately, with more “extreme heat events” causing power outages and an increasing number of heat-related deaths, especially among older adults. To prepare for this summer’s already climbing temperatures, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has introduced a new website on heat, with specific tips for those in the age 65-plus group. Included in the …

Gil Henry: Thank Him for Your Guacamole

Posted on 06/6/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Food | Legacy | Personal HealthEnjoying a slice of avocado on a sandwich or mixing up a little guacamole to eat while watching a football game seems like the natural thing to do today, which is why it’s strange to think that 30 or so years ago, fewer than half of Americans had ever even tasted one. Indeed, the avocado was considered an exotic California fruit, as alien to people in the Northeast and the Midwest as a palm tree. But even if you lived …

When the Brain Stops Working

Posted on 06/5/2013 by | Latino Life | Comments

Personal Health | Your LifeWe were in a movie theater watching a long and boring subtitled foreign film when it suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t know where I was. Literally. I had been slumped down in my seat day-dreaming about sex and money when the realization flashed into my head like a light globe in a cartoon illustration: I’m lost. I turned to my wife, the perceptive Cinelli, and whispered “Where are we?” She whispered back, “At the Laemmle,” which was the …

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