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"It's a major concern of many people in this country, particularly baby boomers or those of us who have had to care for aging parents with some form of dementia. It's not fun—not for them, not for us, and it's a fate every one of us would do anything to avoid. I can't promise you that the supplements in this combo cure will prevent Alzheimer's. But I can promise you that every one of them—separately or in combination—has been shown to produce some improvements in mild cognitive impairment and/or in full-blown Alzheimer's." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Most of the health benefits derived from food synergy are long-term, and they're powerful, helping to prevent major chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, and stroke. With baby boomers hitting their fifties (I'm a member of this distinguished group), this new way of looking at things through the lens of food synergy seems perfectly timed. Of course, while the need to know more is strong and growing stronger, it's important to recognize that there's still a great deal to learn." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Next, the words Celebrex and Ask your doctor appeared on the screen, and with them the promise of the happiness and vitality that I, along with millions of baby boomers, fantasize about. The ad conjured up a lovely picture. Unfortunately, it turned out that the side effects of Celebrex (celecoxib) and those of similar drugs?Vioxx (rofecoxib) and Bextra (valdecoxib)—called COX-2 inhibitors left many osteoarthritis sufferers who took them skating on thin ice." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"In 2002 and 2003 prescription spending rose faster for children than for seniors, baby boomers, or any other group. But so far scientists know little about the long-term effects of using powerful adult drugs in children, making the booming pediatric market a grand American experiment. The drugs have already harmed thousands of children. Federal regulators received more than seven thousand reports of drugs harming infants and toddlers under age two between 1997 and 2000, according to a university study. More than 750 of those children died." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"A Protocol to Lower Cholesterol Stressed-out baby boomers worry about (among other things!) their cholesterol level. And well they might, since stress tends to elevate cholesterol. Having elevated blood sugar can also contribute to high cholesterol. Generally, most people don't have their cholesterol levels checked. They should. This is done as part of a blood lipid profile. You cannot eliminate cholesterol from the diet, and, indeed, you should not do so, because, as mentioned previously, cholesterol is important. But it must be kept in check." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Prevention must become a task in all our lives and a priority for our lawmakers. baby boomers will not go gently into their elder years and retirement. In fact, we can reinvent both aging and retirement. After all, this was the generation whose activism and energy fed the idealism of the 1960s. If we all take the actions necessary for changing our own lives and advocate for greater societal changes, we can begin to construct a new framework for aging in our culture. "let thy food be thy medicine": can better nutrition keep us vital?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "U.S. ?26.8 percent of the nation's population are baby boomers. ?51 percent of boomers are women. ?$45,654 is the average annual spending by boomer households. ?12.6 percent of boomers have never married. ?88.8 percent of boomers completed high school. ?28.5 percent of boomers have a bachelor's degree or higher. ?Nine states (California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Ne York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas) are where more than half of all boomers live." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Newspapers and magazines would have us believe that Alzheimer's is spreading throughout human populations, and especially baby boomers, like an epidemic and claiming millions more victims. However, what you aren't told is that we don't even know how to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, let alone tabulate the numbers of disease victims. Because there is no single biological profile for AD, every clinical diagnosis is considered "probable"—and, frankly speaking, not even postmortem examination can differentiate a so-called AD victim from those who have aged normally." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"For example, baby boomers who were born before 1963 received only one vaccination for polio, and one other combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP). By 1989, children were still only receiving three different vaccinations. In 1991, though, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that all infants receive the hepatitis-B vaccine and the vaccination for HIB {Haemophilus influenzaetype B)." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It works for teenagers with cardiomyopathy, baby boomers with blocked arteries, and octogenarians with failing hearts. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes inflamed and dilated and doesn't pump well. It enlarges to pump more blood. When the heart can't pump enough blood, the condition is called heart failure. This life-threatening situation can also result from narrowed arteries, a past heart attack with scarring of the heart muscle, high blood pressure, a congenital heart defect (present at birth), or heart valve dysfunction." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "We are concerned that as health care resources become increasingly strained with the aging of baby boomers, patients may not be able to get a fully covered bypass in fifteen years, maybe not in five years. You can't rely on Medicare to take care of you. You have to spend some personal resources now to avoid spending huge dollars in the future. If you were to take five or so drugs, you might spend $250 a month, anyway. Not only do you bear the cost but also the potential of side effects. Why not spend some money now to get healthier—and you may not have to deal with serious crises in the future." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Well, it's a new millennium and a turning point for women's heath. We baby boomers who legalized abortion, revolutionized birth control, and pushed for double careers have learned a thing or two. With the good and bad of our endeavors, we are now in the midst of menopause. It is time to take charge of our health and perhaps even make things easier for our daughters, when their time comes. Hormone Support Therapy Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, which was the main form of hormone therapy in the past, never made sense to me. Why replace hormones when you can support them naturally?" - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "The rest of us overworked, overstimulated, fast-food-fed baby boomers with aging parents and/or demanding kids and pets are going to have to work at it to get back on track. Here's how in a nutshell: you support your adrenal glands and the other glands they balance. Your symptoms and lab tests will help you determine which hormones are low and what you can do about it. When you are feeling more balanced, it will be easier to look at your lifestyle, which may be at the root of how you got out of balance in the first place. Because hormones affect all organs, they affect all symptoms." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"WHY MILK MATTERS It seems that my generation, the baby boomers, grew up without the beverage monopoly we call the soda business in full force like it is today. As kids, many of us drank milk at every meal. Frankly, I don't even remember having soda every day. I think it was reserved for parties or the occasional trip to the golden arches or downtown diner. What's been happening to dairy consumption lately? While whole milk and butter consumption have gone down, cheese and premium ice cream are rising. Are we trading one high-fat dairy food for another?" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Train Your Body, Save Your Brain Most baby boomers I know worry about losing their minds. Not literally, of course. But all too many of us have had the heartbreaking experience of caring for aging parents who no longer recognize them, no longer know where or who they are, and suffer from either vascular dementia or full-blown Alzheimer's disease. It's a fate many of my boomer friends fear more than almost any other—the gradual and inexorable loss of the ability to think, feel, and act as the person they've always been." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The logic was supposedly irrefutable: The baby boomers must save money. They had no choice but to put it into stocks. Stocks had to go up. The reasoning was perfect—as long as stocks went up. But then something happened; stocks went down. baby boomers felt little desire to buy stocks. But the "demographic factors" argument was still perfectly serviceable for the housing market. It will work fine—until houses go down in price. On April 10, 2005, an article entitled "The Hunt, Becoming a Mogul Slowly" appeared in the New York Times." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"With the baby boomers becoming old, it is likely that this section of the population will grow at an even higher rate in the next census. In 2000, 18.4 million people were 65 to 74 years old. This was slightly more than half of the population over the age of 65. 58 PDR https://www.pdrbookstore.com/Default.asp? 59 Formulary: the entire list of drugs available to the physician 60 Cornucopia: horn of plenty 61 United States Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-10.pdf Advancing age brings with it degeneration of the body." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"As the baby boomers age, the AMA argues, and doctors retire, we will need to train many more physicians in the coming years. There's considerable disagreement over this, but the most worrisome aspect of the AMA's argument is that those new doctors should be specialists. Why? Because specialists are the doctors that many Americans want to see. Maybe that's so, but health care economists aren't sure that we should assume the financial burden of those who want to go to specialists." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"It is widely thought that the baby boomers, when they start retiring around 2008, will want to move out of the city and into beautiful places to retire. It is sometimes also said that, as standards of living continue to rise, the larger and larger number of newly wealthy people will want to buy second homes in beautiful places that are inherently scarce, such as ocean fronts or mountain tops. But the supply of such properties cannot be increased. It may be becoming increasingly passe to flaunt one's wealth by building bigger and bigger first homes." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"As of 2006, the youngest members of the group of more than seventy-eight million people in the United States known as baby boomers will have passed their fortieth birthday. The older members of the group, which include George W. Bush and Bill Clinton (and me), turned sixty in this same year. About thirty million of us will suffer some form of dementia, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"THE LIFE LIST Much of the public discourse on aging focuses on baby boomers becoming senior citizens and the belief that their vast numbers will take an unprecedented toll on the health care system, in the form of dementia and other costly health problems. But I don't believe we're stuck with this picture of doom and gloom. Despite my generation's familiarity with fast food and pay per view, we also came of age with Kenneth Cooper's revolutionary concept of aerobics." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"And baby boomers, like my hiking buddy, are not only living longer, they're not going to take a life of inactivity sitting down (pun intended). So how do we help alleviate the discomfort that comes with our weekend warrior lives and our rapidly degenerating joints? Enter MSM. Natural Prescription for Pain and Inflammation MSM: Start with 1,000 mg per day and gradually work up to 4,000 mg per day. Because MSM helps to detox the body of heavy metals, watch for signs of rash, sweating, or headaches. (Nutritionist Suzanne Copp, M.S., frequently sees acne breakouts on the back, so be prepared!" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"On the one hand, the baby boomers are entering their most cancer-prone years with a tremendous rise in the number of cancer cases being predicted. It is estimated that as many as one in three Americans will develop cancer in their lifetime. Cancer is just now passing heart disease as the number one cause of death in the United States. On the other hand, remarkable and unexpected developments now make it possible to place the greatest cancer-blocking molecules directly into the hands of patients so that cancer prevention can be effectively practiced for the very first time." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Stroke stems from a collapse or rupture or blockage of capillaries anywhere in the brain. If the blood flow is cut off to the temporal lobe — the brain's dictionary—you can speak but you can't get the words right. If you have a stroke in the frontal cortex, you won't be able to speak, but you can understand what people are saying to you. The next most common form of dementia is Parkinson's disease, in which the dopamine neurons in the subtantia nigra get depleted and cut off the flow of the neurotransmitter to the basal ganglia, which is the brain's automatic transmission." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The new assertiveness was hardly limited to AIDS activists. As baby boomers aged, so did their demand for state-of-the-art medical information. And it wasn't just information they were seeking. Managed care, and its rising encroachments on what they once considered an entitlement, was forcing boomers to articulate their medical rights, which they had not had to do before. In a sense, an entire generation was finding and forging a new medical identity. "A huge psychographic was blowing up," says Peck. " - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Aging baby boomers are about to discover up close and personal what it's like to suffer from chronic inflammation. The CDC estimates that by 2030 we will add another 22 million to the list of people in pain.59 Arthritis will become the biggest obstacle to enjoyable retirement for the boomer generation. With so many suffering, it's hardly any wonder we're all desperate for relief. Shaking hands, buttoning a shirt, or typing on a computer keyboard can be difficult if your fingers hurt. But who can give up e-mail? We communicate with the world through our fingers." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"As a "natural" skin-care ingredient it is primarily being promoted as having been clinically proven to reduce the signs of aging, improve sun damage, reduce surfaced capillaries, and offer many other skin benefits of particular inreresr to aging baby boomers. There is a good deal of research on kinetin when it comes to plants or in test tubes (in vitro), with cells, or even with flies, but there is no published research on kinetin's topical effect on either animal or human skin (Source: Dermatologic Clinics, October 2000, pages 609-615)." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"Not eating enough fruit and vegetables, smoking and not exercising It was a wakeup call for baby boomers when newscasters reported in 2004 that former President Bill Clinton had to undergo emergency heart surgery. Unfortunately, the message conveyed to the world wasn't really focused on improving heart health but on taking the right drugs. It was by mere coincidence that just one week before President Clinton was admitted to the hospital, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet sounded a wakeup call with a different meaning." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"While not surprising, given the aging baby boomers, the youth culture emphasis in American society, and the huge percentage of health care dollars spent on older people, this trend may shape our views and treatment of aging. While aging has already to a degree been medicalized, the antiaging-medicine movement redefines nearly all of aging as appropriate for medical intervention. It no longer matters whether aging is natural or not or whether one is sick or well, but only whether aspects of aging can be targets of medical intervention (Mykytyn, 2006)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Facial acupuncture is gaining popularity, especially among baby boomers who want to diminish signs of aging. There are other forces driving demand, too, including consumers who are tired or wary of repeated Botox injections. So, business-savvy acupuncturists are marketing their alternative approach as a holistic solution. THE PROCEDURE In facial acupuncture, the practitioner inserts small needles into "pressure points" in the face. According to supporters, this boosts blood flow to the area, producing tighter muscles and a more youthful appearance." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

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