The good news about a woman’s new lifespan is that you’ll probably live until you’re 80! The bad news is that your habits and choices must support that new longer life. Exercise, excellent eating, and regular check-ups are the basics, but the hormone question comes up when there are problems with hot flashes, energy, sleep, mental focus, and osteoporosis. The headlines about hormones have caused many women – and their doctors – to pitch any consideration of hormone replacement out the window without investigating the facts behind the headlines. (more…)

It’s strange, isn’t it? Our culture is saturated with sex – sex on television, in music, in the movies, in a store window in the mall. Yet the last taboo of sex is a man and a woman talking honestly and in detail about what they want.

There’s a desire for the whole thing to happen spontaneously, without each partner having to submit a flowchart for the other to follow. Why can’t this be the one area of our lives that glides along naturally, without having to be illustrated in 27 8×10 photos with circles and arrows and an explanatory paragraph on the back of each one? (more…)

Don’t Let The Top 10 Excuses Keep You From Living A Healthy Life

I don’t have time.
Could you get up earlier or work out after work?
Time spent exercising = time not spent in doctor’s offices, having no energy, picking up prescriptions, and dealing with illness.

I love to eat.
Who doesn’t? Healthy people enjoy their food, but they’re on a budget – calories in are low, strength training and cardio are high. Can you eat half? (more…)

Take responsibility for your sex life and do all those things you’ve thought about.

Virgins don’t know what’s up – you do! Finally take responsibility for your own sexual satisfaction and growth. Stop saying things like “Nice people don’t do that,” “No one wants to have sex with someone who looks like me,” and “I can’t tell my partner what I need – he never gets it.” (more…)

The boomer’s view of work and retirement is completely different from their parent’s. The old get-the-gold-watch and head down to Florida idyll is dead, because of both the changing job market and the new, longer life span. It’s now common to retire early or be forcibly “retired” by a layoff in your 40’s and 50’s. Many of us recoil in horror at the thought of spending 30 or 40 years “retired” without any additional income or working dimension to our lives.

The big choice that you have to make today when considering a second career is really no different than the one you made the first time around. Do you want a job that will give you the most dollars for the hours you put in, or will you insist on doing something that’s rewarding, possibly for less pay? The answer depends on you, on the size of your financial obligations, on the “squeaking room” in your current work situation, and on the degree of frustration and rejection that you’re willing to endure.

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