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Back before the baby boomer generation, 60 meant old. It meant hobbling around on a walker with a hump on your back or your head permanently pointed downward. It meant a forgetful mind and wandering thoughts. This is old age, the health community said. It isn’t pleasant but its reality.

Fortunately for you, there were doctors and nutritionists who refused to take this problem lying down. There is a wealth of research out there that can help you live a longer, better, and happier life.

That doesn’t mean you are going to feel like you are in your thirties. Problems like bad knees, arthritis, and spinal stenosis (pressure on the spine) can significantly slow you down. Even if you somehow escape arthritis and osteoporosis, you often have more aches and pains than you did 10 years ago. You’re sleeping less and need longer to get going in the morning. Your sense of taste may be changing and you’re probably on a few prescription medications.

No, you aren’t thirty any more and you never will be. But that doesn’t mean that you have to lose your mobility and go senile. Old no longer means fragile and useless. Not if you don’t want it to.

When you’re sedentary and hit your sixties, the last thing you want to do is start exercising and changing the way you eat. You may think it’s too late for you to change your ways. You worked hard all of your life and now you’re going to rest.

The Problem with ‘Taking it Easy’

Unfortunately, if you don’t move you are going to have a miserable ride to your final rest. This is the theme you are going to hear over and over in this book. Print it permanently in your brain. Your body is happiest when you get up and move. The majority of those ‘old age’ problems are really sedentary diseases in disguise.

If you’ve lost your health, or if you’re sixty and sick, this section of the book will help you find your health again. The diseases that come with a sedentary lifestyle can be reversed by an active lifestyle. If you are in shape, then this chapter will help you to stay in good shape. You don’t have to grow frail and forgetful. If you are already frail, you don’t have to stay that way.

There is no pill that you can pop that will take you back to 30 again. No matter how many of us wish that we could turn back the clock and live our lives then with the knowledge we have now, it isn’t going to happen. All you can change is the life you have right now. The health you have right now can change as well. If you want to be more youthful, you have to work for it. If you want to be sharper mentally, you have to work for it. If you want to be slimmer and more energetic, you have to work for it. It will take some effort. The effects will be well worth anything you do to attain that vibrant health.

Are you ready to take control of your life? You can begin again at 60.

The key to staying healthy is preventing problems before they occur. That is what you are doing when you eat right, exercise, and control your weight. The second way to stay healthy is to nip any problems that do come up in the bud. You need to go get a physical before you start exercising. It only makes sense. At 50, there are other tests that you also will need to add to your list of things to do:

Colon Cancer: Get a colon and rectal exam. Color cancer is nasty. Fortunately, scientists these days have a few ways to find it before it becomes fatal. Make sure there isn’t anything growing in there that shouldn’t be.

Osteoporosis: This is for the ladies in the audience. This is the time when osteoporosis starts rearing its ugly head. If your bone density is down, you will want to focus on strength training and balance exercises.

Prostate Screening: Fellas, it’s time to think about your prostate health. Don’t put this off. The sooner you start dealing with any problems that show up, the better your chances are of dodging the fatal forms of the cancer bullet.

Diabetes: Welcome to the age of adult-onset diabetes. This problem is perfectly manageable—and reversible—with proper diet and exercise modifications. In other words, if you stop eating garbage and go work out you will often get better.

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Take Care of Your Emotional Health

The longest lived people all have a few things in common. They all eat right and exercise. But they also remain connected to a group of friends and engage in activities that matter to them.

What does this mean to you, you ask?

Stay connected

The kids are gone. You may or may not be living alone. In any case, if you have a spouse, he or she isn’t enough, if only because one person shouldn’t have to support all of your companionship requirements. Unfortunately, most people in their 50’s enter this decade with fewer personal connections that they should have.

Does this sound like you? You can do something about it. One of the easiest (and healthiest) ways to make friends is to join a group fitness activity. This can be an aerobics class you go to every day, a master’s swim club, or a biking group that meets once a week or once a month. Pick a sport you like or can stand to do regularly, and then go look for a club for it.

This does two things for you. First of all, if you get together regularly with the same people you will automatically build connections. Secondly, with those connections comes responsibility. You are more likely to go exercise regularly if you know people will miss you. It’s a win/win situation.

Do something meaningful

You need to do something you care about. This can be anything from volunteering your time at a charitable organization to raising rare breeds of tomatoes. Pick a subject, get involved, read up on it, and be active in it. Or maybe you could go back to college and get that degree you never had time for. You may have to keep this activity on the sidelines until retirement, but it’s important that you start something right now. Your health depends on it.

This may seem illogical. You’ve worked all of your life. You may be looking forward to not doing anything like that anymore. By all means, take a vacation. But make it a short one. The human body is designed to move. The human mind is designed to solve problems. If you don’t exercise your body, it rots. If you don’t solve problems, your mind rots. Or you start wondering if anything matters any more.

We like vacations because they are surrounded by work. A good vacation refreshes you so you are ready to go out and solve problems again. When you retire, give yourself a new job. Make it something you love to do and can be passionate about. It will give you a reason to look forward to getting up in the morning.

Your sixties can be a time of vibrant health or a miserable acceleration of the aging process. The choice is up to you. You may have more trouble turning back the tide of decay if you’re just starting to get in shape now, but it is definitely doable. Remember this if you remember nothing else: It is only too late to change when you’re dead. Everything else is negotiable.

Tests You Need to Take in Your Sixties

Blood pressure: Every two years after age 50.

Cholesterol: Every five years unless you have high cholesterol. Then monitor this regularly.

Colon and Rectal Screening: This screening checks for cancerous growths and benign growths (polyps) that may become cancerous.

Dental Check up: Once a year. Tooth decay, believe it or not, can lead to heart disease. Don’t put this off.

Diabetes: Get a blood sugar test if you’re at increased risk. You know that you are at increased risk if you have such factors as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or triglycerides, obesity, or a family history of diabetes.

Eye Exam: Every 2 years.

Prostate: Check this starting at age 50, and recheck every 2 years or so unless your doctor recommends otherwise.

Mammogram: Check as often as your doctor recommends.

Body Mass Index (BMI): This basically checks whether you are overweight or obese based on your gender, height, and weight.

This looks like a pretty long list, but look at it this way: everyone knows sports cars require more maintenance to keep up their sleek looks. You’re just a sports car. Anyway, these are the same tests you should have been taking since the age of 50. The frequency has probably picked up a bit, but that’s about it. If your biggest concern in life is a little annoyance because you have to keep taking these tests that all come back negative, then you are very lucky indeed.

Depression

Nobody likes to talk about it. When you were a child, depression was seen as a self-indulgent funk you could throw off if you just snapped out of it. Science has come a long way in the last 55 years, but many seniors are still reluctant to talk about it.

Depression can be seasonal. It can be hormonal. It is also a somewhat natural reaction in someone who knows their body is falling apart around him or her. This is yet another reason why you need to exercise. Exercise slows down body decay. This may not cure every form of depression, but it can at least take one reason for depression off of your mind. Every little bit helps.

When you work out your body releases endorphins that will make you feel euphoric for hours afterward. Watching your body rebuild itself can give you a sense of well-being and self-confidence that you can carry with you all the time.

Going to a gym to work out also connects you to other activity-minded seniors. This can help offset feelings of loneliness and isolation that can lead to depression. If you suffer from depression, see your doctor. This is not something you should try to fight through alone. While you are doing that, go exercise.

Companionship

This is the age when the funerals start. Friends you’ve known for a long time begin to pass on. That is why it is absolutely essential that you connect yourself to as wide a support network as possible. New friends will never replace old friends, but you should not be alone. Humans are pack animals. We need to do things with other people if we want to thrive.

Don’t spend all of your time sitting at home. Fill your time with meaningful activities that involve a group. Join a choir. Take a history class and then join a historical society. Research your family tree and join a genealogical society. Grow prize Dahlias and become a flower judge. Get on a committee to bring better education/health services/etc. into your community.

This is another theme you should remember from this book. Humans need meaningful activities. Your job was meaningful in that it paid the mortgage. Now you can work on something that is meaningful because you think it is. This is a luxury young working stiffs don’t have. Indulge it.

As your sixties draw to a close, how will you remember them? As a time of meaningful activity, freedom from care, and good health? Or as yet another ten years of worsening health and isolation? The power to chart your course is there in your hands. Use it.

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• Cross-training the brain in six cognitive domains (long-term memory, short-term memory, language, computation, visuospatial orientation, and critical thinking) across five self-adjusting levels of challenge
• Brain games that are like no others—based on standardized neurological exercises and tests, but transformed into sophisticated, engaging, richly produced activities filled with videos, music, exciting graphics and humor that make every session fun!
• No childish themes or robotic voices—Dakim BrainFitness is for adults!

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The Longevity Solution By Eric Plasker, D.C. At Nightingale-Conant

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