Maintaining adequate muscle and bone is vital to good health. Having sufficient amounts of bone and muscle are essential to remaining active at work or recreational exercise activities and to performing basic tasks like walking, eating, drinking, bathing, and doing housework. Maintaining adequate muscle and bone mass also reduces the risk of falls and other accidents, and decreases the risk of bone breakage if a fall or accident does occur. A severe loss of muscle mass can even make breathing difficult.

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While rates of heart disease have been going down somewhat in recent years, heart disease is a highly feared condition. Heart disease kills about 300,000 men in the USA annually. Heart disease is also a major health problem in women- especially past menopause. The good news is that diet, exercise and other interventions can greatly reduce risk of heart disease. This article will emphasize nutritional and exercise interventions to prevent and treat heart disease. Anyone with serious heart disease should consult a physician.

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The population of older Americans is growing rapidly. In the United States in 2010, there are 36 million people over age 65 years, 9 million people over age 80 years, 2.3 million over 90 years and 123,000 centenarians over age 100 years. These numbers of elders are expected to more than double by the year 2030.

The senior years can be very active and fulfilling years. Many elders are working full or part time, helping care for grandchildren, actively participating in many sports and hobbies, holding political office and doing vast amounts of work for religious and charitable organizations.

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For thousands of years eggs have been associated with springtime and rebirth. Eggs were used by the early Christians at Easter as a symbol of the Resurrection of Jesus. To this day, many Christians also dye and/or paint eggs at Easter. In particular, members of Eastern Orthodox Churches often produce very elaborate and beautifully colored and painted eggs. Many stores sell Easter egg coloring dyes and how-to books on coloring eggs. Easter egg hunts are often given for children. In many countries, other egg games are played, such as dancing around eggs or playing catch with eggs, while trying not to break any.

Hard boiled eggs play an important role in the Jewish Passover Seder. Eggs also played a role in springtime festivals of many pagan religions as well.

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Candida is a yeast, which is a form of mold or fungus. Candida exists in 2 forms: single cell yeasts and filamentous multi-cell structures. Single cell forms are round in shape and small, about 5 microns in diameter (a micron is 1/1,000 of a millimeter or 1/1,000,000 of a meter). The single cell forms are more common than the filamentous forms. Filamentous forms involve up to several hundred cells and can be up to 200 microns in length. Filamentous forms are generally considered to pose a greater danger of overgrowth and infection than the single celled forms.

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Molds (fungi) grow in almost all indoor and outdoor environments where they have a source of water. Molds are found in water, in the air, in and on plants and animals, in and under soil, and in all kinds of surfaces indoors. Mold can use almost anything which contains carbon as a food source, including carpeting, drywall, wood, decaying food and vegetation, and even crude oil!

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