Age Esteem Fashion
If fashion
Is your passion
And staying smart
Becomes an art,
Then show that style
With a Big smile
And skirt your troubles from your heart.
Don your oldest and best garments
(Beaming at their vintage seams),
Dressing up by adding “charments”
And looking young with AgeEsteem.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Tips To Avoid Intestinal Gas
In certain instances gas is produced during the digestive process. This can lead to bloating and flatulence.
Some foods that aid in intestinal gas accumulation are rice, wheat, oat and corn cereals, raw vegetables, fruit, cabbage, dried beans, onions, and white bread to list a few.
Here are six good habits to adopt for healthy aging in order to prevent or aid this problem:
1. Eat several small meals with less fat and smaller portions, and chew food well.
2. Avoid carbonated drinks.
3. Walk for 15 minutes after having eaten a meal.
4. Drink herbal teas.
5. Avoid stress, which is a key to bloating. The digestive system is connected to the nervous system and thus affects how food is processed in the body.
Since we often find ourselves eating alone as we get older, let me also add an Age Esteem tip. Take time to enjoy your meal. Even if you are eating alone, sit down to eat at a table you have set with attention. Use your good china and a colorful napkin. And why not add a candle or flowers? After all, you are worth the extra effort. – And it will ease your digestion.
Grandma Nature
Garlic For Healthy Aging
Garlic, often called a miracle food, is not always to everyone's liking. – But it is very healthy for you as you age.
Garlic reduces the development of tumors, reduces breast cancer side effects, surpasses penicillin in the combat against 8 types of bacteria and protects people who have had a heart attack from having a second one. Furthermore, garlic contains over 200 vitamins and minerals such as calcium, potassium, iron and zinc.
Unbelievably, it seems to work wonders on every human medical condition such as reducing cholesterol, appeasing teeth and ear aches, and curing flu and its symptoms.
An Age Esteem tip to take away the strong taste and smell of the garlic: Just take out the green bulb in the middle of each clove.
Add garlic to your meat roasts, vegetable platters and soups. Food will taste delicious when prepared with garlic! – And it will help you age healthfully.
Grandma Nature
Do You Hate To Fly?
Do You Hate To Fly?
If you find you have to fly
Try to think about the sky
Look, its almost always Blue
Clear and Bright – that could be You!
Young or old, each “flight” is new
If clouds be gray, what to do?
Just take the journey anyway –
Be happy for another day.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Alexandra Taylor, our Age Esteem Poet, spends several winter months in the land of her childhood roots, Palm Beach, Florida. Fortunately she is en route back home to Geneva, Switzerland. – Thus the topic of the poem.
We look forward to a new flow of verse to keep our rhythmic age esteem alive with rhyme and smiles.
If you have not yet signed up for the Age Esteem Telesummit, do it now!
The following feedback offers you a taste of why you will want to sign up and receive the recordings of the talks you missed – all are free during a limited time.
"Just a quick note to tell you I think your telesummit, with the most amazing speakers, is fantastic! I know there are 2 more days, but it has been extremely enlightening and the quality of the information and delivery so far is fabulous.
I especially resonated with Tina Lifford's concept of "Inner Fitness" and the importance of cultivating skills of resilience and optimism. Her message and examples were terrific. As I rushed home from exercise class to hear her, I realized I do not spend anywhere near the time on inner fitness as I do on physical fitness.
Dr. Jen Palmer answered so many questions I have had (what supplements do we really need and why), and having her be specific with dosage and brands both during her presentation and then on your website was so appreciated. The idea that "Being Sedentary is equivalent to Smoking" (not sure I quoted correctly) in relation to oxygen getting to the brain and body was a real eye opener. She has such a lovely delivery – it was like you were sitting in her office and she was talking just to you.
And how I adored today hearing the "Professional Age-Esteem Bonnie Fatio". The first item on my list you asked us to make "What do I love about being 67 (my age)" is that now that I am retired, I have the time to call in to a conference which is uplifting, motivating, thought provoking, stimulating and hopefully so good that I truly incorporate the new information in my daily life. I always take away so many ideas from your presentations ("Spam your negative thoughts", give a specific name to your fears, YOU are in the Driver's Seat of your life).
Thank you Bonnie Fatio for all you do to energize everyone with whom you come in contact. I know you worked hours to create this telesummit. What a gift to listeners and readers (I copied some of the free material and will send to friends).
Looking forward to the next 2 speakers!" – Diana Johnson, Arizona, USA
Retirement Is A Misnomer
Transition From Career ⇒ New Beginning
Retirement is a word that no longer fits! It's a misnomer for today's population of people transitioning from their careers into a future of their own design.
Years ago when our daughter, then three years old, asked her grandfather what he did. He explained he was retired. She didn't understand. With a puzzled look she told him, « But you don't look tired. »
She was right. He didn't look tired. This 74 year old had just retired from his second career of ten years. When her Grandpa Jim turned 62 he decided that he was ripe for a new challenge before being put out to pasture. So he left the ministry, began studies and became a stock broker. He then re-retired ten years later as Vice President in a major brokerage firm, feeling even more vigorous than at 62. He was a pioneer for his times.
Today starting a new career or activity is commonplace. We are following dreams to improve the world, living passions, winning races, authoring books, creating new products, teaching in foreign countries, and setting new records as we seek new challenges to develop our still untapped potential. We are traveling, teaching, earning degrees, testing new tecnology. We jog with our i-pod, send messages on a blackberry and surf the net. At the same time we are often juggling the care of our grandchildren and parents.
Oh yes, it's time to find a meaningful term to define this new transition. Retirement is associated with departure, retreat, seclusion, reclusion, resignation, pullback, pullout, withdrawal. It may be the departure or withdrawal from a position or occupation, but it is definitely not seclusion and uselessness unless we choose for it to be.
Let's find new terms to replace this archaic word, retirement. A good beginning is "encore choices", which indicates that our journey can take any direction we decide as we weigh the opportunities that surround us. It keeps us in a position of decision, action and power.
Other positive expressions for this transition are refirement, third act, challenged anew, impulsion, re-energized, stage of enlightenment… Choose whichever you prefer. The transition from your career is into a new beginning! Make it with confidence and age esteem.
Bonnie Fatio
You are a gift to all generations!
A dynamic 40+ career woman who is highly successful in her field of work and loves her job shared the following advice with me.
When she heard about AgeEsteem her reaction was, “What a terrific idea! Older people need to recognize what a wonderful asset and resource they are. They seem to shy away from younger people, yet we all need each other.”
She went on to explain, “When I first started to attend conferences, my parents told me to always seek out the oldest person. That person was sure to know more than my peers. So I did. I sought out and befriended older people. I learned so much more that way. In fact I owe these people much of my professional success and understanding of human relations.”
So do not shy away from people of other generations. Seek them out, speak with them and learn from them. Share your wisdom and age esteem.
Bonnie Fatio
The New Retiree
The new retiree looks very little like the person who retired from her job a generation ago.
Besides being more actively engaged in life, there is another major difference. The retired population now represents several generations. Our lives last much longer. To become 90 is not unusual. To live to be 100 years of age is no longer so exceptional. In Japan there are more than 50,000 centenarians. The number of women centenarians doubles every 10 years.
This means that retirees cannot be viewed as one common group of people with common needs. With as many as three generations represented among retirees our interests, concerns and outlook on life and death are very different.
As we live longer and interact with multiple generations who are both pre and post retirement age esteem becomes even more important. Age esteem, feeling confident about ourselves as we age, is a necessary component to help us live our retirement years with a healthy and happy outlook.
Dr. Jen Palmer, 44, Florida
I love the term Age Esteem because it has such a positive image. I have always hated the term “anti-aging”, because it implies the natural process of aging is a negative event that should be avoided and fought against. That creates an unreasonable pressure to try to look younger than we are, and to even pretend we are younger than we are.
Personally, I believe we should embrace the gifts that come with getting older and consider life to be a great adventure. For me, every decade gets better and better! Age Esteem brings to mind confidence, wisdom and strength. The term is a great reminder as to how we should feel, at any age, especially as women.
My personal conerns? For the most part, I look forward to getting older because life gets better every year! I think as long as we have our mental and physical health, we can create a great quality of life for ourselves whether we are 30 or 80. So my biggest concerns would be losing my memory, or having difficulty walking, because those would present challenges (but not roadblocks) for living the kind of life that I imagine.
Jen's tips: My focus is on creating a lifestyle that promotes health for myself and my husband, while still enjoying some splurges here and there. We try to get a good dose of activity and exercise through the week, eat lots of veggies and whole foods, and take supplements. It’s all about balance and moderation. And have fun, because that keeps us youthful and positive about life.
We have plenty of inspiration because we live in an area of Florida that has a large senior population, and the majority of the people we meet are fit and happy. Every day, I see people in their 70s and 80s playing tennis, walking, and swimming- sometimes better and farther than I can! So my assumption is that I will be one of those happy, healthy seniors when the time comes, as long as I take care of myself.
Dr. Jen Palmer is a Naturopathic Doctor ProAgingLiving partnering with AgeEsteem.
Love with Every Age
Do you remember the first time you were kissed? – Really kissed! Your heart seemed to stop, your toes tingled and you felt as though the ground was opening under your feet.
I hope you did, or will. It is never too late.
Let’s face it, though. Lights don’t always go off and bells don’t always ring. – Nor is it necessary.
There are many ways to love. The media focuses our attention on romantic love as though it were the end-all. They forget the love of a parent or grandparent, aunt or uncle, teacher or tutor, or the love of a sibling for another.
The media also overlooks the love that we share among friends. It has nothing to do with romance. It has everything to do with listening, understanding, and being there for the other person. It is based on shared experiences, memories, laughter and tears. It carries the knowledge that you can say what you really feel and not be judged, or ranting over something silly and not be laughed at.
Love is an important ingredient to aging with vitality and health, and with age esteem.
Look at your own relationships and ask yourself
Age-esteemers know that love is a gift. They use it generously.
Bonnie Fatio
