The Retirement Detox Program

Do you want to live to be 100?

Do you want to live to be 100?  In an attempt to find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and his team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigour to record-setting age.  In this TED Talks video, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

When disenchantment with retirement turns into depression

If your disenchantment with retirement is starting to turn into depression, check out this fabulous blog post by the magnificent Barbara Sher about an email exchange that she'd had with someone suffering from depression.  It contains extremely good advice!

Salsa dancing British granny Paddy Jones wins Spain's Got Talent

After the death of her husband, Sarah Jones, known as Paddy, had planned a quiet retirement in Gandia, near Valencia.  But now, at 75, she's become the winner of the Spanish equivalent of Britain's Got Talent after performing a salsa which incorporated 'a dazzling sequence of flips, spins and high kicks'.  Check out Paddy's performance in this video from the Times Online website.

Walkit.com - The Urban Walking Route Planner

If you live in the UK and plan on exploring your city now you're retired (or someone else's city, for that matter), check out Walkit.com. 

This is a great site that gives you a route map between any two points, and includes your expected journey time at a fast walking pace, a medium pace and a slow one.  It also tells you the number of calories you're likely to burn, a step count and the amount of carbon you're saving by travelling on foot. It’s quick, free, healthy and green.  What more could you ask?

Emotional Currency - Where are you spending it? by Scott Stratten

I came across the following little video clip (it's a taster of a coaching program offered by Scott Stratten) which might give you food for thought about where you're spending your emotional energy:

A supportive website for widows

I found a useful-looking website for widows this morning - www.widowspath.com.  It has helpful weblinks, a blog, articles and, if you join (it's free), you get a free ebook entitled: Grief Loss Guide for Widows.  An audio version of the book is also available.

The Nun Study

I love these nuns!  Especially the 102 year old!  

10 Reasons why you're not losing that weight

Who'd have thought that cranking up the air conditioning could sabotage your chances of losing weight? Or getting up early in the morning for a work-out? Read 10 Reasons You're Not Losing That Weight to discover how you could be inadvertently jeopardizing your weight loss goals.

Good news for peanut butter fans

Great news if, like me, you love peanut butter.  Adults in a recent study who ate this childhood fave at least five times a week reduced their risk of type 2 diabetes by 27 percent.  Find out more.

The magic number that keeps weight off

If you've lost weight recently, your most pressing concern right now might just be how to avoid becoming one of the (almost) 50% of 'losers' who regain their lost weight within 6 months.

Today, however, I have good news!  Researchers have discovered that the magic number to keeping weight off is 275!  '275 what?', I hear you ask...  Find out here.