by Patsi Krakoff | May 13, 2020 | Aging Brain, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Senior Fitness
If you’re like many people, staying home leads to eating more packaged foods and take out fast food loaded with refined carbohydrates and sugar. This so-called Quarantine Diet is full of high carbs, sugar, and junk. Just what your aging brain doesn’t...
by Patsi Krakoff | May 1, 2020 | Lifestyle, Nutrition, Senior Fitness, Senior Health
Your doctor may have told you to eat healthy food and avoid eating processed foods. But what does that mean, exactly? Nuts are usually roasted and salted, are they processed? What about bread, it comes out of a factory and goes into a package? For that matter, are...
by Patsi Krakoff | Apr 22, 2020 | Aging Brain, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Senior Fitness
Are there any tests to show how well you’re aging? I like to have data, so I can track progress or problems and apply preventative steps. Just having a good BMI and a normal blood count isn’t going to tell me if I am aging well. Or what I need to do to...
by Patsi Krakoff | Apr 17, 2020 | Aging Brain, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Senior Fitness
Almost everyone knows what it’s like to have brain fog. As a psychologist, when I hear this expression, I want to know more. Because it can mean different things to different people. Here’s a sample of descriptions clients have told me when they experience brain...
by Patsi Krakoff | Apr 8, 2020 | Aging Brain, Nutrition, Senior Fitness
If you want to prevent brain drain—the rate at which your aging brain decays—exercise and good diet are crucial. If you eat inflammatory foods devoid of nutrients and full of refined vegetable oils and sugar, you accelerate aging. Junk food = junk brain. A...
by Patsi Krakoff | Apr 2, 2020 | Lifestyle, Nutrition, Senior Fitness
Judging from the proliferation of Internet buzz, people are trying out plant-based diets. Science supports the benefits of eating mostly food from plants, but it’s confusing to understand. Plus, there’s a lot of hype about the different diets and which are...
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