This Grandma loves Western medicine and Eastern medicine alternatives. Although I hate needles, I have found acupuncture helpful at times. The key is the expertise of the acupuncturist and honesty about whether or not acupuncture will help for the ailment. Best of all, I love natural methods that work for dealing with medical issues. I […]
Little Known Natural Helpful Tips For Living With Palpitations, Dizziness, and Low Blood Pressure
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Grandma’s Top Five Cleanliness in Public Tips For Grandchildren
October 30, 2019 By Leave a Comment
When our eldest was being toilet trained, she fixated on only using the home toilet. We had to return home for her to go or, the good news and bad news was that she would hold it until we got home. Needless to say, this limited our range of movement. I do not know why […]
Best Four Tips We Boomer Women Should Share About Menopause and Beyond
March 7, 2019 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma has written about how we should have friends that are at least ten years older than us so we can learn what faces us in life and friends that are at least ten years younger than us so we can pay it forward. There is no substitute for life experience and the wisdom […]
Goal Setting & Pursuing Your Passionate Purpose In The New Year! From An Expert Health & Wellness Coach
January 9, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Just too few years ago, our younger daughter re-introduced us to a high school friend with whom she reconnected. As we of long years know, intervening years melt away when we reconnect with an old friend from our “prior lives.” It is so fortunate that she is now part of our family’s life for more […]
Women’s Health Care Takes A Massive Downward Dive With Medicare and We Women Must Advocate for No More Limitation on Coverage for Boomer Women’s Vaginal, Cervical, Uterine and Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prevention
December 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma made an annual appointment for the gynecologist. I received a call from the office right before the appointment. They cancelled my appointment. Why? Because Medicare only covers a gynecological appointment every other year. I tried to talk to the office person about having a secondary supplemental medical policy and she said it does […]
Boomers Protein Needs Are So Much More Than We Know For Optimum Muscle Mass and Longevity
November 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma has found that we Boomers are beyond the average age of most standard medical studies. It is about time that age 50 was not the upper limit of the population studies, and studies did not just lump us into a category of 50+. One of the major issues facing us is maintaining our […]
Why Boomers’ Lives May Depend On Paying attention To Oral Health and Periodontal Disease
May 16, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Here is a short true-false quiz: (persistent is defined as two weeks or more) If you have persistent bad breath it may be a sign of cancer. If you have periodontal disease, it may contribute to onset of cancer. You may teach your grandchildren that if they are taking a true-false test and do not […]
How To Get The Yuck Out of the Ducks, Other Bath Toys and Items and The Bathtub Itself
April 24, 2018 By Leave a Comment
When this Grandma tries to get to the source of a series of articles, I find some really obscure on line journals. The one for the source of learning that rubber ducks and other such bath toys and bath items that retain bath water grow very bad bacteria and fungus, a Swiss Federal Institute of […]
Be Aware and Beware of Little Known Adverse Consequences of DNA and Genetic Testing Before You Do Such and Before You Gift It to Loved Ones
April 17, 2018 By Leave a Comment
“23 and Me” ads are all over the television. So many people gifted this ancestry and their health genetic testing or other companies’ genetic testing to family and friends over the holidays. Be aware and beware of little known adverse consequences of genetic testing that go way beyond a “Dear Amy” column where a woman […]
The Truths and Myths About Flu and Cold Survival You Need To Know When About on Earth and in the Air
April 13, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Grandpa and I are trying. We are trying to change habits to be safer in this cold and flu season. We are trying NOT to shake hands even when others greet us with outstretched hands, and bump fist instead. See previous post “Why We Should We Stop Teaching Our Children and Grandchildren to Hug, Kiss, […]
Happiness is Now Taught In College As the Younger Generation Seems to Need Be Taught What Happiness Is
March 10, 2018 By Leave a Comment
The big news across media platforms that are viewed by us Boomers is Professor Laurie Santos’s “Psychology and the Good Life,” course at Yale that has nearly 1,200 students signed up. See the New York Times, January 26, 2018, “Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness, by David Shimerjan. The New York Times article addresses the […]
Two Best Baked Apple Recipes With No Added Sugar For Toddlers To Adults
March 6, 2018 By Leave a Comment
We know sugar is our enemy. As a post menopausal woman, I was advised that my body could not process sugar but could process fat, and that I should cut sugar from my diet for weight maintenance. I now do not worry as much about how much fat is in a food, but I monitor […]
Why We Should We Stop Teaching Our Children and Grandchildren to Hug, Kiss, and Even Shake Hands Upon Greeting Others and What We Should Advocate Instead
February 27, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Just this past week, Grandpa and I went to see a new doctor whose office was located inside a local hospital. The doctor’s nurse who greeted us reached out to shake hands. We declined. The doctor, when entering the examination room, reached out to shake hands. We declined. Did we wonder about our care to […]
The Five Love Languages Apply to Grandchildren Too
August 10, 2017 By Leave a Comment
At a professional luncheon, a few years ago, a new mother, a forty something marital and family lawyer, asked me if I had read the book by Dr. Gary Chapman, “The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts.” Dr. Gary Chapman is a family counselor, radio host, associate pastor and author of several […]
A Documentary We Boomer Grandparents Should Watch and Learn Wellness From, “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast”
July 4, 2017 By Leave a Comment
What a combination of interesting people! This HBO Documentary, “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast” is the cleverest special now available on television. I cannot but believe that we Boomer grandparents are the target audience. The blurb on the website includes, “[c]omedy legend Carl Reiner tracks down other celebrated people in their 90s […]
What A Grandchild Quitting Something Teaches Grandma and Grandpa As Well As the Grandchild
June 9, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Even before Christine Gray’s mother stated in “Fifty Shades of Gray,” that children should be exposed to a second language, music lessons and a sport, this Grandma tried to do that with our children over nearly forty years ago. The sport turned out to be tap and ballet, and each child stopped fairly quickly. The […]
