by Funke Akoni | Apr 30, 2021 | Health and wellness, Tips
Bones, just like all other tissues in the body, always undergo a process of new cell growth and the breakdown of old cells. This means that your skeleton has the potential to change every 10 years. Osteoporosis happens when the quality and density of one’s bones...
by Funke Akoni | Apr 16, 2021 | Health and wellness
Blood pressure is always recorded with two sets of numbers. The first is the higher number which is the force at which your heart pumps blood around your body, while the second number is the lower number which is a resistance to the blood flow in the blood vessels. A...
by Funke Akoni | Apr 9, 2021 | Health and wellness, Tips
Arthritis is the stiffness or inflammation of one or more joints in the body. It is not a single condition and there are several different types. It affects people of all ages, but some forms of arthritis are more common in older people. A joint is where two or more...
by Funke Akoni | Apr 2, 2021 | Health and wellness
Urinary incontinence means that one cannot control one’s bladder. This may happen due to certain factors such as: As one advances in age, the bladder and its muscles may begin to lose their elasticity. This may also happen as a side effect of an illness such as...
by Funke Akoni | Mar 12, 2021 | Health and wellness
Our vision is a precious gift from God, but as we go on our aging journey some of us experience some health problems in our vision. Some of the common eye problems we may experience are: Distortion of objects or the appearance of dark spots in the central field of our...
by Funke Akoni | Feb 26, 2021 | Health and wellness
Do you walk well? Walking well means thinking about our balancing, posture and the way we walk. Most of us don’t pay attention to how we walk until we get to the age of 50 and above when we sometimes start to feel more cautious about the way we walk and we start...
