Age Blasters

The One Runner In The 2011 Boston Marathon The Crowds Are Sure To Adore

Of all the 26,800-or-so runners who will be competing in the 115th running of the Boston Marathon, Patriots Day, April 18, 2011, one is sure to get some of the most enthusiastic encouragement from the half-million expected spectators. That runner is the o... Read >

An Interview With America's Marathon Man, Jerry Dunn, As He Turns 65

South Dakota's Jerry Dunn, also known as America's Marathon Man, loves a challenge. For example, in a single year, 2000, he ran 200 26.2-mile marathons. This year, to celebrate his 65th birthday, Jerry ran/walked 65 miles. Recently we got him to slow down... Read >

Can America Stay Strong If THIS Continues?

The United States of America is considered (albeit sometimes grudgingly) by most folks around the globe to be the greatest country in the world, and the only superpower, although China is gaining fast. What makes a country great and powerful? Contributing... Read >

The Number One Secret to Getting and Staying in Shape

The number one secret to getting and staying in shape is to have an upcoming event for which you must be in shape. You could, for example, have a scheduled athletic challenge for which you must be in shape to survive it, enjoy it and do well in it. This i... Read >

Lisa Smith-Batchen Does 50 Better

About to turn 50 in 2010, ultra-distance runner Lisa Smith-Batchen wanted to do something special that would raise tons of money for her favorite cause, orphaned children. Having already run about 50 ultras (races longer than a 26.2-mile marathon), includ... Read >

7 Very Doable 2011 New Year Resolutions

Here are seven very-doable New Year Resolutions for 2011. With any one of these simple steps you could easily get in better shape and slow the aging process THIS year for a younger, more vibrant you. Let's see if one or more of these 2011 resolutions appe... Read >

5 Greatest Myths of the Holiday Season

Here are the 5 biggest myths of the Holiday Season concerning what this author knows -- Christmas and New Years. Let's see if you agree. 1.It is better to give than to receive. This is tantamount to declaring that, in regards to breathing, it is better... Read >

How Our Thoughts Can Make Us Sick and Worse

We have all known individuals who ate all the right foods, exercised relentlessly and had regular checkups and still got the much-dreaded Disease X. This happening has made us feel vulnerable. "If THIS person, who took such good care of himself -- much be... Read >

Vito Bialla Turns 60 Into an Exciting Adventure

Some of us see turning age 60 as a milestone that marks the beginning of the end and bemoan our lost youth. A big challenge for us -- an adventure even -- is to get across the room to our chair before the paper plate embarrassingly crumples under the weig... Read >

Can You Believe Anyone Can Change So Dramatically, So Quickly?

In May of 2007 a 274-pound Susan "SuSu" Jennings, 46 at the time, started yet another weight-loss program. This August, 135 pounds lighter, Susan, now closing in on the big 5-0, ran the equivalent of 15 marathons in 15 days. In just over three years, this... Read >

The Number One Thing You MUST Do to Eat Healthfully

It turns out that what we put into our mouth is not nearly as important as what we believe about what we put into our mouth. It works like this. If we truly believe that a food or food group is good for us (i.e., important to maintaining robust health)... Read >

Is Aging's Physical Decline Between 20 and 40 Really Inevitable?

It is commonly accepted as an indisputable fact that the human body deteriorates significantly between the ages of 20 and 40 due to the natural aging process, and one cannot expect to have the energy, stamina and durability of a twenty-year-old when in hi... Read >

Are You One of the Great Majority of People Who Are Vitamin D Deficient?

According to recent studies, most people are not getting the amount of vitamin D needed for optimal health for the long haul. More specifically, researcher Michael Holick, MD, PhD, of Boston University Medical Center found that 64% of the 100 adults he re... Read >

Making an Amazing Athletic Feat All the More Astounding

Last October, 74-year-old Californian, Harriet Anderson, was the oldest female to complete the ultra-endurance-demanding Ford Ironman Championships in Kona, Hawaii. Making this amazing athletic feat (in which this septuagenarian had to swim 2.4 miles in t... Read >

Still Drubbling at Age 58

Clio, Michigan's Riley McLincha is still drubbling at age 58. That statement brings three pertinent questions to mind: Who is Riley McLincha, what is drubbling and who cares? Let's start with drubbling. We know that jogging is a slow run and that juggl... Read >