Women age appropriate tips

Wrestling with the idea of growing older – is there a way to win?

It’s interesting to talk about aging with women, because we a have different ideas about it. Most of us don’t want to get old if it means being unable to dance, travel, hold babies and raise hell.
But not everyone is opposed to aging (consider the alternative, I always say). We may want to look young forever, but we know that’s impossible. We talk about “aging gracefully” or “women of a certain Age,” and it all ends up sounding like dumb euphemisms for, well, old.

I think we all can agree on one thing, though:
What we want is to be healthy, fit and able to do the things we love-and maybe even get better, wiser and calmer with each year.
In “Coming of Age,”, we uncover 40 truly surprising tips that can keep you getting healthier (and happier!) with every birthday For instance, a Blue Cross-Blue Shield study found that meditation significantly decreased health problems that typically increase with age, such as hypertension, heart failure, debilitating stress and insomnia. And eating magnesium-rich foods (think kale, cacao and kelp) helps with age-related conditions like constipation, memory decline and limited mobility Bone health is on my brain these days, and we know that weight-bearing exercises such as walking, running and strength training keep bones strong.
Rowing crew (my favorite workout and meditation combined!) must work pretty Well, too. When vitamin company Rainbow Light came to our office so we could try out its new Bone IQ Mobile Center (reps have been taking it to drugstores around the country), I found out that, at 56, I have the bones of a 30-year-old (go to boneiq.com for tour dates).
I credit my kids, great friends, rowing and seeing as much live music as I can for keeping me feeling and acting my mental age, which I swear is somewhere between 20 and 30 depending on the day and whom I’m with. And it all boils down, of course, to believing that you are improving in many ways with age.