December 2011

Age-well - Happy Christmas

"May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!" ~Author Unknown

"No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas." ~Robert Kirby

What do you want for Christmas this year? Material goods might not be the best gift you can receive. How about better health, more energy and a sharper mind? Gifts that keep on giving well for the rest of your life! Why not visit the age-well.org website to find simple and effective ways to improve your health and happiness. No matter how young you are now, it is never too early to start making life style choices that will ensure that you stay healthy and active as you age.

Age-well.org will show you how little changes can make a huge difference and completely change you for the better. Visit our page on smart habits and make sure your New Year’s resolutions will be ones that improve your health and help you age-well and read all about age-related diseases and how to treat and prevent them. Learn how positive thinking can help you be happier.

Meet Our Authors

Tim Nichol was born in South Wales and taught in England and Italy, before moving to Germany. He is currently adviser to a cluster of eight schools.

Tim has presented at Conferences in English and German and has published a novel based on a child with Dyspraxia.

Tim's main interest at present is the use of solution-focused approaches to problem solving, and he will be writing about this issue for age-well.org over the coming months.

His numerous hobbies include healthy eating and healthy aging.

Jennifer has dual British and Italian nationality and has lived in several European countries before moving to the United States.

Besides running her own Consulting company, Jennifer has many years experience working in the multinational private and NGO sectors. She has worked in various roles, including web marketing, human resources management, corporate sustainability, education and analysis.

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New Pages

"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it."
~Richard Lamm

This month we are launching a new section on Retirement Planning It will include articles about the financial crisis with some advice from our authors on how to weather the recession with information about how it will impact our pensions, savings, taxes and insurance.

The first articles in this section have been authored by Richard Ryland who contributes a piece explaining the financial crisis and an article about saving for retirement.

And for the section on self development that was launched last month:

Michelle Botes, who has been one of our top authors, writing regularly for age-well.org over the past few years, has written another excellent article entitled Mind Over Matter.

Recipe of the Month

Each month we feature one of the recipes which has been added to our healthy recipes database.

This month's choice by Madeleine Howard from London. Madeleine has a website called www.rawblimey.weebly.com which has many delicious raw food recipes.

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." ~Janice Maeditere

From the Age-well Forums

Here is advice from one of our readers, submitted to our Forum on Stress-busting Techniques:

Please visit our Age-well Forums to join in.

Till Next Time

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We wish all our readers a holy, healthy and happy vacation this yultide.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year.

Keep well till next time.

Mary Treacy

Founder and Editor of Age Well
http://www.age-well.org/

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." ~Roy L. Smith

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