Over The Hill Health Matters

Here’s a simple and apparently quite effective nutritional program that is easy to self-regulate without a lot of brain power. Sounds tailor-made for me.
Emily Isaacson, a certified naturopath from the Xa:ytem First Nation of British Columbia, has designed The Rainbow Program. Six small meals a day as opposed to the more usual three square (plus [...]

My eyes are dim, I cannot see. I have not brought my specs with me. I have naw ot brought my specs with me.
That’s because I do not carry a purse and the glasses case is too bulky for my pocket.
I want folding reading glasses! Half-eye folding glasses, actually. I am always looking up and [...]

Just because I am fifty…something, doesn’t mean that I want to look like grandma from the fifties. Once I take off my apron and stop baking cookies for my friends with glaucoma, I want to look sveldt in my reading glasses.
Then I’ll put some clothes on.
I’m sure this image will help you all stick to [...]

Excellent! I found some sunglasses that are bevelled, like all good sunglasses should be for UV protection, and they do not distort my vision. Not so excellent is that they are not in my usual spending range of $1.25. Move the decimal over two places.
Ouch, that hurts.
But not as much as vision distortion or eventual [...]

That don’t give me pink-eye or distort my vision.
The wrap-around style popular with hardcore cyclists are considered the best for blocking the evil and sneaky UV rays that like to launch an effective surprise attack from the periphery. The lenses should ideally be brown, grey or dark green, so as not to distort the natural [...]

Macular degeneration is the major cause of loss of vision in people over 60. Macular degeneration means that a portion of the retina is deteriorating, resulting in a loss of the central area of the eye’s visual field. It does not affect your peripheral, or side vision. What you see in front of you might [...]

That’s right! This post is entirely dedicated to eyes. Okay, the title is a bit corny, or should I say a bit cornea?
No.
I should not.
OcuPhase eye drops,  originally formulated in Europe, dissolve cataracts. This removes the need for traditional surgery in one hundred per cent of newly forming, fledgling cataracts, and in 80 per cent [...]

Or do they?
Are your eyes getting the nutritional ingredients they need to fend off macular degeneration? Glaucoma? Cataracts?
Age-related eye conditions such as those just mentioned have long been thought irreparable by most laymen and health practitioners. Of course, there is surgery to remove cataracts, but can we prevent them in the first place?
What can be [...]