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Like most of us, we love living and want to live a long and happy life, so looking after our health is a big part of this.
Health - Lifestyles.com aims to explore some of the many health topics and how we should handle them.

Having worked in the health profession for over 34 years (feels like forever!) I have a strong interest in health and all the alternatives that are around. Some are good and some not so good, but all are interesting to explore.

We get told we're over the hill after 50, so that's the time to start to look after our health and improve our lifestyles. However I realize I should have decided to look after my physical and mental health better when I was younger. But it is never too late. With new interests and a desire to do lots of travel I've now embarked on a new lifestyle to improve my health and longevity.

With a family health history of heart problems, diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis and a touch of Alzheimers I need to look after my Health - Lifestyle.

Here's a delightful little poem that I think sums up life. It speaks of growing old in a wonderfully outrageous style, and was written in 1961 by Jenny Joseph.

Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple

with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired

and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

and run my stick along the public railings

and make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain

and pick the flowers in other people's gardens

and learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat

and eat three pounds of sausages at a go

or only bread and pickles for a week

and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry

and pay our rent and not swear in the street

and set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

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