For people who want to age well and stay engaged with life. I share practical ideas and personal reflections on strength, adaptability, independence, and what it means to keep moving forward with purpose.
Your Health is Now the National Conversation
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Aging is a challenge and I enjoy writing about and sharing the (sometimes hidden) angles and agency that can change our trajectory. It’s rewarding to see the national conversation finally discuss an underlying problem that accelerates disease as well as the aging process. Sunday Night’s 60 Minutes is worth sharing and repeating. Former FDA Commissioner, David Kessler said “Over the last 40 years, the United States has been exposed to something that our biology was never intended to handle. Energy-dense, highly palatable, rapidly absorbable, ultraprocessed foods that have altered our metabolism and have resulted in the greatest increase in chronic disease in our history, type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension, abnormal lipids, fatty liver, heart attacks, stroke, heart failure.” Bill Whitaker: “From our food.” David Kessler: “From our food.” Here are some highlights. Please excuse my novice editing.
This is more evidence that lifestyle and daily choices can either build or impede health. The entire story is worth repeating over and over!! Stay Well Friends! Read more on Substack. Gert in touch with your ideas, suggestions and comments. Forward this newsletter to anyone you know who may enjoy it. |
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For people who want to age well and stay engaged with life. I share practical ideas and personal reflections on strength, adaptability, independence, and what it means to keep moving forward with purpose.
What Are You Training For? I spent September 2026 learning. You could say I was “back in school.” Early in the month, during a family vacation through Vermont, Canada, and Quebec, I kept running into reminders of what matters: “The destination is not as important as who we become in the midst of the journey.” “The language of society is conformity. The language of the creative individual is freedom.” It seemed I was never far from some nudge toward self examination and perspective. Later, I...
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