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How to improve your age beliefs so you can live longer and better

Yale professor Dr. Becca Levy has shown that positive age beliefs help you live longer and experience fewer physical and mental challenges – things that historically were considered unavoidable aspects of the aging process. My last blog post summarized her research findings as discussed in Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long & Well You Live.

This article covers Dr. Levy’s practical tips to improve the age beliefs you’ve been unconsciously for the past 40 or more years. Levy offers an ABC method, with exercises that help you reverse negative age beliefs.

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Your age beliefs affect how long and well you live

Here’s a quick way to assess your age beliefs. Think of an older person. It can be a person you know or someone you imagine. What are the first five words or phrases that come to your mind as you consider this person?

Do this now. Once you’re finished, keep reading.

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Mindset shifts post-Covid

Spending so much alone time at home during Covid led me to develop a couple of mindsets, or attitudes, that do NOT reflect the person I want to be. And yet, now that the pandemic is over, I’m finding it hard to shake off these attitudes. Specifically, I have two mindset shifts to make post-Covid: a sense of social anxiety, and an orientation toward self-centeredness.

This post will describe how I got here and what I’m doing to move forward. Maybe my story will help you shift a mindset you’re struggling with, too.

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Immunocompromised behavior post-Covid

Have you noticed? Covid is over. Finished. The national emergency is history. Most people in the US have gone on with their lives. Stopped masking, stopped pumping hand sanitizer at building entrances. Personal and business travel is up. We’re resuming our regular behavior post-Covid. Life is back to normal.

Only it’s not.

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6 things I learned from 2 weeks of plant-based eating

Is plant-based eating a game-changer for health? Or just another craze? I thought I’d do an experiment in plant-based eating myself, so I ate no animal products for 2 weeks straight.

Here’s what I learned from 2 weeks of plant-based eating.

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Plant-based eating in midlife

Approximately two-thirds of the world’s population lives on a primarily plant-based diet. Although that estimate connects to issues of poverty and the availability of meat worldwide, it also indicates that America’s meat-focused way of eating might not be the best. Not surprisingly, more and more people are giving plant-based eating a try.

I wanted to understand what plant-based eating really means, why people are switching to plant-based diets and whether this way of eating is something that can benefit me at midlife.

Here’s a summary of my research. This post will help you distinguish the different types of plant-based diets, why people choose plant-based eating, and how to get started with it. See what you think about whether plant-based eating in midlife is something that works for you.

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