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Age, aging, age-friendly
Blame the Boomers. Aging is bombarding the news. No letup is visible on the horizon as millions of Baby Boomers stampede into their 60’s. Media seems to be having a hard time keeping up with all this...
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Longevity gets food, 1
It’s been about eighty-two years since Twinkies were introduced to the American public. Fifty years later the first Dietary Guidelines for Americans were introduced.We’ve been through several wars and...
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Dancing with the stars: Anya Klimova-Preston (Photos)
Get those feet tapping, those pulses racing. Prepare for one’s own personal, exciting pseudo-workout. Monday welcomes ABC’s Season 14 of “Dancing with the Stars” in all its sparkling, energetic,...
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Longevity gets food, 2
Part one introduced Tressa Yellig and her prepared foods grocery store Salt, Fire & Time. Now we get to explore one of the amazing, nutrient dense, sustainable food products offered by grocery...
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Longevity gets food, 3
It’s impossible to discuss health and dietary fats—saturated or otherwise—without at least touching on blubber and traffic in human fat. Yes, dear Longevity Readers. There’s a slippery market for your...
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Longevity gets food, 4a
After wading through oceans of peer-reviewed research and countless web sites—some dubious—to sort out “good” fat, “bad” fat, fatty acid chain lengths, trans, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated,...
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Longevity gets food, 4b
Attention dedicated Longevity Readers: We continue with dietary fat since the subject just doesn’t quit. Various noteworthy aspects keep turning up. So far we’ve examined fat aspects like blubber and...
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Preventing Alzheimer's disease
With most every aging adult from about 30-ish to 90 whining about increasing forgetfulness and bemoaning the growing presence of Alzheimer’s disease, the first lecture in OHSU’s 2012 Brain Awareness...
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Longevity gets food, 5--the finale
Though we’ve barely tasted the dazzling array surrounding food choices—how to eat and why—we’ll end our current series with some brief points relevant to longevity, links for those who care to wander...
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Incontinence is a 12-letter word, part one
Checking “incontinence” in the American Heritage (online) Dictionary of the English Language leads one on the oft-traveled dictionary dance: “the quality or state of being incontinent.” Dancing over...
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Incontinence is a 12-letter word, part two
Back to the doctor. Melanie Crites-Bachert, D.O. that is, and her illuminating 45-slide PowerPoint talk given at Providence Portland Medical Center on 3/22/12 as part of Providence Health &...
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Goodbye Time Out! part one
One of Portland’s beloved comedy venues, TIME OUT! The MOTHER of all comedy shows approaches its finale after three years, thousands of laughs—from giggles to guffaws—and increasingly packed houses....
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Goodbye Time Out! part two (Photos)
“He who laughs, lasts.”—Alfred E. NewmanLongtime longevity readers are likely aware that humor helps maintain perspective and everyday joy. It is a frequent, if sometimes subtle, element in all...
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First USA world book night (Photos)
If unfamiliar with World Book Night—a celebration originating in the U.K. just last year (2011)—it’s part of a day and night given to giving free books to people, especially to young adults and...
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Okay, so the Buddha walks into a bar ...
Shambhala Publications has done it again. Their booklist continues its own shining path of enlightenment while enlightening readers. “The Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation”...
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Hep C threatens boomers
Just in time for Memorial Day week-end 2012, the annual bloom season for cemeteries, there’s news yet bouncing around the air waves about deadly hepatitis C. In particular, much of the news targets...
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Lehrer, creativity and imagination
What does it take to create something from nothing? To create a song, dance, picture, painting, drawing, sculpture, a performance, movie or winning TV series we generally look to artists. Jonah Lehrer...
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Feathers flying
Before we get to the fun stuff (the Portland, Oregon band Ruby Feathers plays 7/5/2012 at the Landmark Saloon!), we must, as longtime Longevity readers expect and accept, again consider music...
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Art and longevity: going public with Chris Haberman
If wondering what the heck relates longevity with art, consider the actions of one’s HPA-axis. The Hypothalamus, Pituitary and Adrenal glands are believed to affect digestion, stress response, mood,...
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Longevity explores time-based art (Photos)
Long-time longevity readers recognize it’s not enough to greet one’s advancing years simply looking good, feeling mobile, being relatively pain-free and perhaps learning to minimize the whining....
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