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February is American Heart Month

February is American Heart Month

It’s right there in the middle of your chest and, at a minimum, you sense its presence everyday and can feel its activity at various pulse points around your body. However, many of us take it, and what it does, for granted until something goes 

Top Ten Health and Fitness Tips for 2019

Top Ten Health and Fitness Tips for 2019

Yes, fitness and health tips and trends change from year-to-year in a manner similar to how car companies generate new models every year.  New tips and trends generally mean new things to purchase and new classes to enroll in…capitalism at its finest.  However, these new 

Portion-Controlled Meals Explained

Portion-Controlled Meals Explained

And you thought this post was going to be resolution related!  Well, it sorta is, but not entirely.  If controlling your weight and eating healthier is your resolution, then I guess my first sentence is a falsehood.  However, this goal should not simply be a 

How to Care for Aging Parents

How to Care for Aging Parents

Age happens…to all of us, and this immutable fact can make caring for elderly parents a bit of a challenge. It can be extremely difficult to witness the gradual mental and physical deterioration of the people we love most, especially when we have vivid memories 

The Holidays are Over…Time to Get Back to Your Routine

The Holidays are Over…Time to Get Back to Your Routine

The parties are over.  All the high-caloric foods have been eaten.  All the libations have been… drunk?…drank?…consumed!  It’s time to get back to the drudgery of our dreary, work-a-day lives.  But it can be quite difficult to get back there. You’ve spent the last two 

Holiday Tips for Seniors…Health, Safety and Otherwise

Holiday Tips for Seniors…Health, Safety and Otherwise

Let’s begin this post with a question: why would seniors need special health and safety tips during the holidays?  It’s a simple two-word answer: schedule disruption.  All of us, but perhaps seniors more so than others, function better when on a schedule.  You know, arise 

Christmas Meals Made Easy

Christmas Meals Made Easy

Rather than delay my main point with some inane humor, I’ll get straight to it.  MagicKitchen.com can make your holidays a whole lot easier and less stressful by removing the tedious tasks of shopping for, preparing and cooking meals for your holiday gatherings and not 

Unique Christmas Cookie Recipes

Unique Christmas Cookie Recipes

Sure, you could grab a tube of chocolate chip or sugar cookie dough from your local grocery store and “bake” a batch of Christmas cookies for friends and family, but so could I and I know virtually nothing about baking. What you’re looking for this 

Senior Gift Ideas

Senior Gift Ideas

They’re old and you love them but finding the right gift for the elderly people in your life can be a real pain in the nutcracker.  Do you get them something practical and safety-related, like a medical alert device, or do you get them something 

Start Your Christmas Shopping Now.  Yes, Now!

Start Your Christmas Shopping Now. Yes, Now!

In case you haven’t noticed, holiday catalogues have begun showing up in your mailbox, holiday displays are up in some stores, and holiday movies (at least on the Hallmark channel) and commercials are appearing on the television…all before Halloween!  What’s a consumer to do?  Don’t