Boomer Babe

Posted April 24th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

There's a precious moment in an episode of TV's Boston Legal when Denny Crane, the ‘mad-cow-diseased' founding attorney reflects, “It’s fun being me," that struck home with enough viewers to create a t-shirt with those words. Is it middle age when we first become truly comfortable with who we are? We’re not very different in the way we think, talk, or behave from when we were younger… we’ve just stopped fixing our personalities for other people. If we just didn’t have to fix our eyes, ears, joints, and various other parts of our bodies that break down, we’d be perfect!

Invasion Of The Robot Snatchers Coming To A Nursing Home Near You

Posted November 19th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

Guess what? We don't have to worry about growing old alone. We will have robots to take care of us... the kind that can become any person you authorize it to be, kind of like a medium to communicate with the living.

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Is All Your Weight In Your Bum? Try The Lift Assist!

Posted November 16th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

When I saw the Lift Assist seat cushion, I immediately thought, not of seniors, or disabled persons, or people with arm or leg injuries; I thought about boomers I know, people in their fifties, even forties, who struggle to get off their asses, excuse the expression, because their asses weigh them down like steel anchors!

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Vibrator Lets You Know You're Out Of Line: The iPosture

Posted November 14th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

The iPosture is an electronic disc containing a number of sensors programmable to accept your perfect posture. When you deviate from that posture, the little devil goes off, vibrating until you get back in line.

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6 Exercise Machines To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

Posted November 13th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

We are very close to the end of 2008, even though it seems like the year just started a few months ago. How did you do on your new year's resolutions? Did you reach your fitness goals? Me, either. But I do note that every year fitness equipment seems to get more and more effortless, so now, well maybe 2009 should be the year we do it!

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Cognitive Abilities Strong Among Highly Educated Alzheimer's Test Subjects

Posted November 11th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

A study conducted by scientists at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed a clear relationship between educational level and cognitive ability, even in test subjects with brain pathology indicative of Alzheimer's Disease.

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C-Reactive Protein, Statins, And Your Heart: New Findings

Posted November 10th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

A new study released by McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) indicates that statin drugs are effective at lowering the high levels of C-Reactive Protein (CRP) found in patients with cardiovascular disease due to inflammation.

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Hot Off The Press! A 2009 Sarah Palin Calendar

Posted October 30th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

Whether you think she'll be the 2012 Republican candidate for president or she's just getting an extra five minutes of fame, Sarah Palin is starring in her own 2009 calendar. The cover is not exactly cheesecake, unless you think it's sexy for a woman to stand in front of an American flag with an open shot gun slung over her shoulder.

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Like Baboons, Men Are Hot For Ladies In Red

Posted October 28th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

Psychology research is ever turning up more ways that humans are like animals. In the particular study I'm reporting about today, the human male, in particular, is being compared to the baboon, chimpanzee, and other nonhuman primates. It's about the color red. It's sexy.

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Popular Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise For Alzheimer's Disease

Posted October 27th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

Valproic acid, used in the treatment of epilepsy and other neurological and psycho-neurological disorders, has been found to improve memory and reduce brain lesions in mice with Alzheimer's symptoms.

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Don't Mind That Smell, It's My Blood Pressure Going Down

Posted October 24th, 2008 by Boomer Babe

This is true fact; I read it on the Internets. The gas that comes from our bodies, our rears, our behinds... That gas that the boys used to set on fire, and laugh, and run from? That gas. Our smelly, embarrassing gas... is being researched as a possible medication to lower blood pressure! I am not kidding.