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		<title>They&#8217;re My Calories&#8230;Stop Counting  for Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No curmudgeon here, but just one harried boomer, who&#8217;s watching life&#8217;s intrusions chip, chipping away&#8230; One upside of travel used to be the &#8220;turn off your mobile phones&#8221; announcement, and now, it appears one&#8217;s conscience gets no time &#8211; off from calorie counting. Regulators&#8217; appetite for calorie counts is about to extend beyond restaurants to include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Men and Ageism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first rules of marketing and advertising is to understand and target the audience your product is intended to reach.  Seems pretty straightforward, but sometimes the path to the promised land, or targeted audience, is a winding one.
If you are a Mad Men fan, you watched this week as two advertisers debated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Live Long and Prosper?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living longer is, as Martha Stewart would say, “A good thing.”  Living longer and maintaining a high quality of life through those later years is a really good thing and a recent report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics says that this is exactly what older Americans can expect.
Of course, that long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=125</link>
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		<title>Brainier than Thou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, we learned that extra body fat was correlated with smaller brain volume and possibly linked to increased rates of Alzheimer’s disease.  Across the city, ice cream spoons were sadly set aside.  Not that anyone wanted to be overweight, but being overweight and hopelessly confused was just more than we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Need a New Hip? Check the Joint Registry First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[806,000 hip and knee implants were performed in the US in 2007 – that’s double the amount done a decade earlier. However, a 2007 study demonstrates that 7% of Medicare patients who underwent a hip replacement required another replacement hip within seven and a half years.  That number, small as it sounds, translates into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Bona Fide Boomer Got to do to&#8230; Survive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Jarett Berry, a cardiologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, one must be vigilant about keeping physically active. Yes, in what they used to call &#8220;Middle Age.&#8221;  Wasn&#8217;t that the time we thought would be a little slower, a tad less &#8220;vigorous,&#8221; an entitlement to ease up a bit? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Stress-Busting Tactics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stress is a part and parcel of our frenetic lives, but chronic stress is not what the doctor ordered. Too much stress hikes up your blood pressure, causes body inflammation and can result in heart problems.
So what do we do to slow down? Here are some ways to manage your stress.
• Be realistic about your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=112</link>
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		<title>A Little Volunteering Goes a Long Way . . . To Help Your Mental Function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the number of U.S. seniors with Alzheimer’s skyrocketing, much research is underway to determine how to stave off this mental deterioration, keeping people physically and mentally sound as they age.
A recent report in the December Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences found that older women who volunteered for Experience Corps – tutoring elementary school children, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Fight Back or Heart Attack? Forget Wimping Out at Work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a definite association between &#8220;covert coping&#8221; in the face of unfair treatment in the workplace. Men who tend to walk away from conflict at work could be setting themselves up for a myocardial infarction and cardiac death.
In a prospective study of Swedish workers, those who used &#8220;covert coping&#8221; techniques when they felt they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=107</link>
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		<title>Unemployed and Down in the Dumps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current recession is taking a toll on the mental health of the ranks of unemployed and underemployed. The risk of severe depression is four times greater for those without a job than those who are working – according to a recent national survey conducted by Mental Health America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portchesternursing.com/blog/?p=101</link>
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