by Rupe | Feb 2, 2018 | Health-Wellness-Sex
Walking is one of the most rewarding lifelong activities you can choose. While it may not be a huge calorie burner — the average person burns about 100 calories or so per mile — adding more mileage to your day can make a big difference in weight control. According to Harvard Health Watch, one 2009 study found the average person gains about 2.2 pounds a year during middle age. However, over 15 years of research, the study found that individuals who walked regularly gained significantly less weight than those who didn’t.
Source: Essential Guide to Walking and Steps
My Comments: Pretty good article on walking with focus on steps. In recent months I have moved away from the heavy toll of long distance or time span running to stepping. I will focusing on stepping for the remainder of the year, although I want to do a half marathon. I will see how that goes.
by Rupe | Oct 12, 2017 | Health-Wellness-Sex, Money Matters
A young carer holds the hands of an elderly woman in a residential home for the elderly in Planegg near Munich in this June 19, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/Files
If you have an aging parent and want a glimpse of what the future holds, look no further than Leslie Glutzer.
The 66-year-old from Chicago has a mom who is 92, dealing with dementia, now living in a local nursing home. Those costs are not covered by Medicaid, so Glutzer and her husband are spending more than $5,000 a month from their savings.
Source: Start planning now to care for elderly parents
My Comments: Really good piece for everyone.
by Rupe | Oct 5, 2017 | Health-Wellness-Sex
The disparity between top earners and everyone else is staggering in nations such as the United States, where 10 per cent of people accounted for 80 per cent of income growth since 1975. The life you can pay for as one of the anointed looks nothing like the lot tossed to everyone else: living in a home you own on some upscale cul-de-sac with your hybrid car and organic, grass-fed food sure beats renting (and driving) wrecks and subsisting on processed junk from supermarket shelves. But there’s a related, looming inequity so brutal it could provoke violent class war: the growing gap between the longevity haves and have-nots.
Source: Pam Weintraub – Aeon
My Comments: Really interesting piece. The coming longevity war.
by Rupe | Sep 20, 2017 | Health-Wellness-Sex
“If you Google me, one of the first things that comes up is a Cosmo headline that’s like, ‘Why I Cheated on My Husband,’ ” laughed author Ada Calhoun. “I’m not mortified by it, but oh, God, it’s one of the first things. And my husband thinks it’s hilarious. He’s like, ‘That’s a good title. I’d click on that.’”
In her book, “Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give,” a partial memoir about the idiosyncrasies of the modern marriage, Calhoun explores her own infidelity. She and a colleague “made out, but not too much, unless you think that anything when you’re married to someone else is too much,” Calhoun described in a phone interview. The book, whose title comes from her 2015 New York Times Modern Love essay, also touches on her
Source: WAPO – Rachel Raczka
My Comment: Really insightful and good read.
by Rupe | Aug 30, 2017 | Health-Wellness-Sex, Money Matters
My husband and I were dreaming about what we would do if we won the recent $758 million Powerball jackpot. (We didn’t.) I told him he should keep working his federal government job so that we could hold on to the insurance into retirement. “I think with that much money we could afford our own policy,” he said.
Source: Here’s what health care will cost you in retirement
My Comments: Good piece from Michelle SIngletary from WAPO.
by Rupe | Feb 10, 2017 | Education, Health-Wellness-Sex
It’s awkward enough talking about death with other adults. It’s even harder when you have to explain to impressionable children that a loved one is gone forever. Here are a few tips for approaching this inevitable topic in the best way possible.
Source: LifeHacker
