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The media makes a big deal about eating problems and malnutrition in children and young adults, but you rarely hear about eating issues that involve seniors. Sadly, while these problems arise from different motives for seniors than they do for young people, they are still fairly prevalent.

We live at a time when medicine has improved to a point where most Americans can expect to live to 80 years or more. That’s a 30 year increase from the beginning of the last century. The flip side of these medical advances is that many elders face some kind of chronic disability, and these disabilities often require care from a family member. The most common chronic situation afflicting older Americans are arthritis or declining hearing or vision–all of which require assistance to get through a normal day.

To better understand why our memory sometimes falters, we need to understand how the brain stores information. Information is not stored in a single area of your mind, but are scattered over various regions. You can think of you brain as an area containing various storage bins. Each time you collect a piece of information, you brain decides how to categorize it and then what bin to drop it into. The next time you go looking for those facts, your brain then at least has an idea of what bin it placed it in.

Ginger is one of those plants that seems to have been around forever and is a remedy for everything. The ginger plant is native to Southeast Asia, but is also grown in the United States, China and India. Whether fresh or dried, the roots are widely used in Asian and Chinese cuisine. Ginger is also a staple of Ayurvedic medicine as a digestive remedy.

Unfortunately, losing some elasticity in your skin is a fact of aging. As we grow older our skin will lose its firmness. This is part of the aging process and while we can’t put it off forever, there are a few tricks that will help to postpone the process. So how do you go about firming skin up?

Pycnogenol an herb that is a powerful anti-oxidant, that reduces free-radical tissue damage and is much more effective than vitamin E, C, Carotene, Selenium.