Be Well, Do Well and Keep Moving
Gentle Reader, A good friend is suffering from arthritis in her hand causing discomfort playing tennis and gripping the handles of her hiking pole. Her pain, like the arthritis pain in many aging hands, is the gradual deterioration of the joints because of continued use and abuse over a long, productive life. In 1980 when […]
Gentle Reader, Today I sat with a group of women doing writing practice. One lovely person a few years younger than I read aloud when it was her turn and shared her wistful memories of back packing. Having all she needed in the world for simple shelter, nourishing and simple food, everything necessary in her […]
Gentle Reader, This is just in from the Johns Hopkins: Knee Pain: An Early Warning Sign of Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting an estimated 27 million people in the United States. By age 40, approximately 90 percent of us have at least some signs of osteoarthritis that can be seen […]
I keep advising you to eat lots of Swiss chard, collard greens, kale, mustard greens and you say, but I don’t like greens. Greens are one of the best foods for arthritic joints and arthritis in general. They provide minerals and help with inflammation. It is possible to cook them so they are delicious. Dark […]
Gentle Reader, You’re too busy, you say, to exercise. Here I am at the Shaklee convention in Las Vegas where it is too hot to breath outside and too stale to breath inside the air conditioning. I’m one of those Northwesterners who lives and breathes in and out nothing but fresh air. We are sitting […]
Gentle Reader, Has this happened to you? You make a goal to step up your fitness training to prepare for a back packing trip. Maybe, like me, you have a big hike in your future and your friends are suggesting that you need to train harder for it. After all, the Alps are high mountains. […]
Eat to Defeat Inflammation Gentle Reader, At a picnic last night there was a lot of talk about pomegranate for lowering pain and inflammation in joints affected by arthritis. I have posted about this before, and wanted to bring this post to you from the health sciences department of Shaklee. The Shaklee corporation scientists and […]
Gentle Reader, A friend sent me a TED talk by Dr.Terry Wahls on MS this past week. In the 5 minute screening she recounts her productive life as a research scientist up to the debilitating onset of MS. Seeking the best care medical professionals had to offer, her condition worsened. Driven by her inquiring mind to […]
Traumatic injury: my story Posted on October 18, 2011 Hello, Gentle Reader, In 1989, I lifted, or should I more accurately say, yanked a large drink box full of wine bottles out of the back seat of a two door Datsun. I heard something go in my lower back. I was angry about carrying these […]