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Fear of Falling, High Altitude, & Nature’s Medicine
Weekly Resource Roundup Fear of Falling Increases Risk of Falling In Katy Bowman’s book Dynamic Aging she states that a fear of fall is a risk factor for falling. Research found that people who hadn’t fallen but reported a fear of falling, were more likely to fall in the future. Being afraid of a fall…
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The Medicine of Subtracting
What if I could only subtract to solve problems? This is one of questions from Tim Ferriss’s 17 Questions That Changed My Life What if the treatment for our ailments isn’t in adding something to our lives but subtracting from it? What if doctors didn’t look for additional medications to put us on, but instead…
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Positive Perspectives on Aging & Fast Walking
Weekly Resource Roundup Finding Strengths in Aging Arthur Brooks offers up some positive perspectives on aging in his book, Strength by Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. Here are two favorite excerpts from the book:Fluid intelligence is conceptualized as the decontextualized ability to solve abstract problems, while crystallized…