In this Issue -
The Key to Active Aging
Moo North: Cows Sense Earth's Magnetism
Free Body Sense Magazine
Quotations
The Autumn Leaves
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The Key to Active Aging
Bodywork For Boomers
Extracted from an article By Liz Prato originally published in Massage & Bodywork magazine.
Copyright ABMP Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals.
Sixty-five never looked so young! Baby Boomers expect and demand their bodies to keep up with their active lifestyles. Fortunately, bodywork can help in this endeavor.
Discover the many ways in which massage therapy keeps Boomers healthy, active, and youthful.
Baby boomers are a generation used to hiking, walking, running, biking, kayaking, surfing, and just about every other activity imaginable. It's clear that this is a generation that won't stop being active simply because our bodies are getting older.
The only problem is, our bodies are getting older. Even if someone feels 30 mentally, his or her body most definitely is not. The joints, ligaments, and muscles that make sports possible have all endured years of wear and tear. If you use something day in and day out for 60 years, it's going to wear down.
A report found that in 1998, there was a 33 percent increase from seven years earlier in sports injuries sustained by people born between 1946 and 1964. The increase was not attributed to more baby boomers engaging in more physical activity. The difference was that, suddenly, those same active adults were aging and therefore more susceptible to injury.
The Important Role Of Massage
While massage cannot repair a serious injury, it can go a long way toward warding off some of the more serious injuries. "I really believe massage is the best preventative medicine," says Dr. Gaynl Keefe, a doctor of traditional Oriental medicine who recommends massage to many of her clients.
Between 50-60 percent of Keefe's patients are 45 years and older, and almost all are trying to stay active. Part of it is because they want to look thin. Part is because they want to ward off many of the diseases that often accompany age, like cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Part of it is because retired people simply have more time to be active than when they were chained to a desk all day. They're taking exercise classes, traveling, and chasing their grandkids.
As people age, "the body's whole chemical factory slows down," Keefe explained. The symptoms include: joints and ligaments drying out and becoming less elastic, disc degeneration causing back pain (especially the lower back), recovery time from illness or injury increasing, and the immune system wearing down, making people more susceptible to infection. Enter the healing art of massage.
Read more:
www.massagetherapy.com/articles/index.php/article_id/1607/Bodywork-for-Boomers
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Moo North: Cows Sense Earth's Magnetism
A new study finds cows and deer tend to face either magnetic north or south when grazing or resting. This held true regardless of where the sun was, or how the wind blew. This has come as a surprise even to those who spend their days with bovines. The discovery was made by a team from a German University who used Google Earth to look at cows and deer all around the world.
From Npr and Discover Magazine.
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Free Body Sense Magazine
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In the Autumn/Winter 2009 issue, read about -
- More Than a Luxury...
Proven benefits of massage that make it part of a healthy lifestyle.
- Massage Multiplied...
The more you receive massage, the better it is for you.
- The Body Knows...
Overwhelmed with success, best-selling author used massage therapy to overcome depression.
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Quotations
"The mountain lion's lesson for me has been one of patience. Even more correctly, it has been a lesson in the value of uncaptured dreams. For much as I have loved the heart-stopping surprise of my encounters with bear, with wolf, with coyote,
they cannot match the power and purity of my unrequited desire to see Annie's lion.
A dream unrealized, the lion has taught me, is the essential food of the soul."
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
- Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-born Humanitarian and Missionary
"When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer."
- Gene Hill
The Autumn Leaves
(Les Feuilles Mortes)
French lyrics by Jacques Prvert, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Joseph Kosma.
The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sun-burned hands I used to hold.
Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I'll hear old winter’s song
But I miss you most of all my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall
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