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Barbara Morris, R.Ph.'s Articles in General Health

  • Aging Gracefully: How Scarlet and Rhett Might Have Done It
    It’s clear that “aging gracefully” means different things to different people. To me, aging gracefully means letting go, just letting life happen. It's giving up goals, dreams, productivity, and challenge. It’s placidly waiting for death. You get to a place where, as Rhett Butler would say, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
  • Aging in a Straightjacket? How to Avoid Being Old
    Want to stay young forever? Yes, you can with the help of one approach to being young that is rarely considered in anti-aging discussion.
  • Be the Star of Your Own Anti-Aging “Today Show”
    The mental and physical decline that accompanies the aging process – is it inevitable? Or is it a result of cultural influences and how we live? Like perfectly programmed robots we march into old age, fully accepting consensus thinking, archaic tradition, and contemporary cultural norms. It’s not necessarily bad – it’s the uncritical acceptance of “this is the way it should be” that seals our fate into premature decline.
  • Eight Ways to Help Your Mom (and You) Stay Younger Longer
    The quality of your own “golden years” will depend on the quality of your mom’s life. Whatever you can do to help her stay mentally and physically strong and flexible will pay huge dividends for her, for you, and your family in the years ahead.
  • Powerful Anti-Aging Role Models: More are Needed
    Whatever age you are now is a good time to take better care of yourself. The younger you are when you start the easier it is. And it’s truly helpful if you can find inspiring role models to look to for encouragement.
  • Preventive Health Care: Does it Exist?
    True preventive health care is nonexistent for most Americans. That’s because traditional medicine focuses on treatment of symptoms, and that’s not prevention. Our health care system operates like the old barn door – it’s left open and then the farmer tries to figure out why the horses ran off.
  • The Anti-Aging Law of Compensation: You Must Apply It
    The so-called civilized world we live in makes it difficult to maintain youthful attributes and stay healthy. Fast food, pollution, low and non-nutrition processed edibles eaten as food, stress, medications, lack of adequate information and our own negligence contribute to health problems and signs of premature aging. To get around it, you can do one of two things: just let it happen or be on the offensive with compensating measures.