What you can do to improve your sleep quality, Part III
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb When I began “Sleep Part I” of…
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What you can do to improve your sleep quality, Part II
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “The shorter you sleep, the shorter your life.” – Mathew Walker, Director, Center for Human Sleep Science, UC Berkeley Yes, I know the above quote…
What you can do to improve your sleep quality, Part I
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “Be thy sleep silent as night is, and as deep.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I have a hunch that my subject matter this week will…
Change your thinking, cut down on stress
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “The world we have created today is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Commonly attributed to Albert…
Never gonna get old: Staying active will keep you feeling young
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “We don’t stop playing because we grow old … we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw Some of you may recall…
‘Convenient’ foods lead to inconvenient health issues
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien This week’s topic…
How often do you choose “slow food” over fast food?
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.” – Benjamin Franklin In reference to Mr. Franklin’s quote above … he obviously was…
Helping others part of being better people
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can…
Learning from our history: How leprosy on the Hawaiian Islands parallels to today’s pandemic
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “I have seen sights that cannot be told, and heard stories that cannot be repeated.” – Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, June 1889 Today I…
A good retirement needs continued planning for future
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower The verb definitely wins over the noun in the above quote by General/President Eisenhower. Although…