Healthy Living

Feeling worn down? Constantly exhausted? You aren’t alone. In fact, according to health experts, a ‘lack of energy’ is one of the top five complaints doctors face. And it is a complaint that Western medicine all too often fails to treat.

“I discovered that I couldn’t help about 70 per cent of my patients,” says Dr. Woodson Merrell, author of The Source: Beat Fatigue, Power Up Your Health, and Feel 10 Years Younger. “They weren’t sick, but they weren’t well either.”

How do you think your retirement planning is going? Are you on track to where you hope to be in a few years, or are you falling behind?

If you’re confident in your retirement savings and your level of health, that’s a good thing, but experts say you should think twice about becoming too comfortable.

We all know that good oral hygiene is important for the pearly whites. But now there's even more reason to floss: It may help to ward off a deadly cancer.

Gum disease and other dental difficulties have already been linked with an increased risk in heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, diabetes and pre-term and low birth-weight babies. And now researchers have found a connection between flossing and pancreatic cancer.

Every two years, more than a billion people worldwide tune into the Olympics, watching their favorite sport, and cheering on their home country’s team. The Olympics are a symbol for many of perseverance, hope, and determination.

Earlier this month, nearly three thousand seniors in British Columbia participated in the annual BC Senior Games, according to a recent article in the Barriere Star Journal, and many who competed say they felt tremendous enjoyment from the event.

Lenore Groundwater doesn’t act like what most people would expect a resident of an assisted living community might expect.

Groundwater, a 93 year-old great-grandmother, has been crowned as Alaska’s newest fishing champion after catching a 16 pound fish in Port Valdez, Alaska.

Seniors in assisted living communities are often told that some of the key ingredients to staying healthy are a positive attitude, laughter, and being surrounded by close friends.

For one retirement living community in New Jersey, they combined all three, according to The Record newspaper.