Nature’s Clever Scheme
Our lives are just like seasons
Ever changing and renewed,
We age for many reasons,
There’s no time to fret or brood!
We Spring first towards Summer’s suns
Then Fall forth ‘till Winter comes.
Think of Nature’s clever scheme
When you practice AGE ESTEEM!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Combatting Allergies For Healthy Aging
The beautiful season of spring is here. The earth is bursting with color. – White apple blossoms, the pink of cherry trees, the yellow of forsythia, and the purple of lilac to name a few. However, there is also pollen, which brings terrible allergies.
Respiratory allergies are very prevalent today. Pollen also affects the eyes making them itchy, and the nose stuffy. Asthma becomes a nightmare for some. It seems that one is never born with asthma but over the years it develops due to allergies.
More and more people today are diagnosed with these symptoms, which is probably due to our modern way of living. Allergies come from an over-developed immune system.
Feeling miserable with allergies can effect your age esteem, so for healthy aging and healthy age esteem practice the following tips when pollen fills the air.
When spring approaches and the pollen is rampant, there are a few things one can do to help. Close windows in the morning when the pollen is most present; do not put clothes or sheets outside; wash hair in the evening and avoid picnics and nature walks. Unfortunately, this is difficult to do during this season. but it will help to control the allergies.
Should symptoms become really bad, medical attention should be received because the allergies can become severe.
One positive point: This condition does not last!
Grandma Nature
Life Is A Patchwork
Life is a patchwork, full of seams,
Stitched together by Age Esteem!
Sewn and gowned with bolts of Time
Hemmed and mended (like this rhyme!).
If this pattern’s good to the end
I’d design it for all my friends!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Happy International Women’s Day 2014
On this International Women’s Day, I would like to celebrate all of the women, and men, who have forged the path for women today. Without the courage and persistence of those who have gone before us, we would not have the opportunities that we do.
One of the most moving moments for me as a member of the Geneva City Council was in 1999. That was the year that Ruth Dreifuss was elected as the first woman President of Switzerland.
Tradition called for her first stop as President to be a visit to her home canton (state), which is Geneva, and to parade through the town with the local politicians so the citizens could welcome her. It was already special to accompany the first woman president of the country, but what truly moved me were the masses of women lining the streets. Many were waving white handkerchiefs and had tears in their eyes or were openly sobbing with joy as they welcomed her.
President Ruth Dreifuss represented a major step in what these women had fought for both covertly and overtly over the years. These suffragettes were women who had succeeded in having their voices count as votes and to be elected to government! This was a day of rejoicing.
Bonnie Fatio
Friendly Bacteria
Did you know that more than 100 billion bacteria, 1.5 kilograms of them, live in our intestines!!
Their task is varied. There are friendly bacteria, which help to digest the food we eat, maintain the immune system and prevent pathological bacteria from developing. Thus your intestines should be well looked after.
How? By what you eat. A balanced and varied diet is essential. Foods rich in fat are to be avoided. Plain yogurt without sugar and the bifidus drinks are the answer.
Grandma Nature
Perfection
How do you describe perfection?
Perfect weather, place and mood?
It’s a kind of resurrection
From a tendency to brood!
Every day should be better
Than the one that went before;
Send yourself a mental letter,
Stamp your mind with joy galore!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Can Money Buy Good Health?
They say that money cannot buy good health. However, some research shows that rich people are in better health than poor people. This is based on the result of a study that indicates that people with lower incomes go less often to the doctor because of the expense involved. Let’s face it. Healthcare can be very expensive.
Yet, in today’s world, there is so much about nutrition and good health that one just needs to read and to research to know what should be eaten and what lifestyle to lead.
Pharmacies, too, can be a great aid in helping people manage their health.
Grandma Nature
How You Dream
All life should be a Palm Beach
With perpetual sunshine,
Where goals are all within reach
And high spirits are so fine.
The Palm fronds would be waving,
The sea an azure blue,
Every picture worth saving
Therein the wisest clue:
The you can be eternal
It’s in how you dream…
In summer, spring, hibernal
You’ll have high AgeEsteem.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Free Fitness Workout For Healthy Aging
Housework. Does just the mention of the word make you cringe? Perhaps. And yet, housework is good for you! It is relaxing and it is a free fitness workout. So tell your cleaning person good-bye, put on your work clothes and get down to some serious business.
Housework is healthy exercise for all ages and both men and women.
Believe it or not, studies have shown (British Journal of Sports Medicine) that doing housework decreases stress and the risk of depression. The mind is occupied in thinking about what is to be cleaned, with what, and which type of cleaning product. Then the fact of doing the cleaning with the stretching, knee bending, arm movements, and even weight lifting in carrying laundry or other heavy things to tidy up the house or apartment is good physical exercise.
The joy of seeing an improvement is uplifting. Furniture sparkles; rugs are clean; mirrors shine. – And just think. It is something that you have done yourself. Already the body feels better.
The word housework should no longer make you cringe, but motivate you. You are doing something positive and even artistic and creative; for example, you might re-arrange furniture, add some flowers, or move around objects for a new look in the room.
Whatever you do, do not throw away your cleaning equipment!
Grandma Nature
Sowing Happiness of Age Esteem
Hurrying is worrying if you don’t
Take time to live!
Living means giving every moment
A kind of “sieve”:
Sifting our bad habits which make
Old age a chore,
Lifting up your spirits and spreading
Joy galore –
Growing ever brighter and with
Shining inner beams –
Sowing seeds of happiness
Through your Age Esteem.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
