Tag: age
Coming Into 40 | Celebrating Your Mid-Life
I recently turned 44 years old. For some women around my age, I felt you cringe when I admitted that because, well, we live in a society that tells women we have to stay young to be beautiful or successful or great. I have a mother who never spent much time dwelling on age and [...]
Movie Review | This is 40
This is 40 is being billed as the “sort-of sequel to (2007′s) Knocked Up,” and so Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprise their roles as Pete and Debbie. However, you won’t find Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl here at all, though there are a few other recurring characters, such as Jason Segel, playing an athletic trainer aptly [...]
Anxiety, Vision or Age? (Or, Maybe All Three?)
I used to take for granted my excellent vision. That’s been the case far longer than my vision has been, in fact, excellent. Back when my eyeballs were younger–younger, and more agile—I didn’t really give my vision a lot of thought. I didn’t have to. It was just…there. I’m finding it takes my [...]
Melatonin Rich Foods Can Help You Sleep Better
Ah, yes. Elusive sleep. You may have noticed that as you get older, you get less rest at night and feel more tired during the day. One reason may be due to melatonin. Melatonin and Sleep Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the brain and helps a variety of things for men and women, [...]
Parental Age and Autism Linked in New Study
A new study has linked the age of the parents and the increased risk of autism in children born to parents over 35. The University of Aarhus in Denmark and Cambridge University studied more than 1.3 million children born in Denmark between 1980 and 2003, and found that the risk of autism for children with [...]
