Category: Health And Wellness
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How to Grow with Silver Chats in 2025
We are setting our goals for 2025, and as a reader, we hope to give you a glimpse into the coming year and what it holds for you. Read more
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How To Make A Successful New Year’s Resolution
How many of you make New Year’s resolutions? That elusive promise to make a lifestyle or bad habit change? We have all done it, but not many people achieve success. We start out with the best of intentions but lack long-term execution. We get discouraged because we expect quick results, or it becomes difficult, or… Read more
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Best of 2024: The Complete Guide to Supplements Parts One and Two
PART 1 Silver Chats is writing a two-part series on dietary supplements. This is part 1 of the 2-part series. Estimates are that more than one-third of Americans take dietary supplements. They are a part of my daily health regime. Do you take them? How do you choose which ones to use and purchase? To… Read more
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Best of 2024 – The Truth About Diet, Weight and Aging
Is it a fact or myth that we can’t control our weight as we age? Are we resigned to having thick middles and weak muscles? Are our days of svelt bodies past? I was overweight entering my 60’s but lost 40 pounds, so I know it’s possible. But I’ve also noticed a decrease in my… Read more
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Is There A Connection Between Lifestyle and Chronic Illness?
Could our ability to control, maintain, and alleviate chronic illness be as simple as a lifestyle choice? What exactly is a lifestyle? Which lifestyle is best for optimum health and wellness in aging? Silver Chats will address these questions and explore the answers. What is a lifestyle? Is it where you reside? Is it the… Read more
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The Reason Food Is The Key To Healthy Aging
I love eating. I love food. I love international cuisine. I show my family I love them through food. I am an emotional eater. I reward myself with food. I eat when I’m having a bad day. I eat when I celebrate. I comfort myself with food. Instead of drugs or alcohol, I anesthetize myself… Read more
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How To Use Age Makers To Live Longer
There are so many sources of information available to us nowadays. Many retirees spend hours each day scrolling the internet and looking for ways to improve their lives, stay young, and be healthy. Endless ads for products and services offer miracle cures, focus on specific areas of health and wellness, and promise a youthful appearance. … Read more
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Why Is The Art Of Doing Nothing Important?
When I retired a few years ago, I had a concept of what I wanted it to look like. I looked at my life and divided it into thirds. The first third was from birth to 25, the second was from 25 to 60, and the last was from 60 to death. I self-described the… Read more
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How To Live Longer By Fasting
What do you know about fasting? If you are like me, I thought it meant going without food, starving and tired, and being hangry. Yes, I said hangry. When I’m hungry, I get cranky. I’ve skipped meals accidentally or fasted for premedical testing, but never for health benefits. Many of our attitudes around food and… Read more
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How to Biohack Longevity
It took me many years of trial and error to figure out my physiology and what my body needed for better health and wellness. The choices, recommendations, and guidelines for age-related diet, exercise, and mental well-being, didn’t work for me. I did my own form of biohacking, not giving it a name. I experimented with… Read more