Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2016 i Zoomer Magazine

If you are born to hang, you can’t drown,” I was told after I narrowly escaped drowning – sadly, my dog Buster did not – as a teenager during an illadvised surfing escapade as a Category 5 hurricane approached land. This fatalistic shrug would not fly over in Cupertino country where the rich, and I am talking stratospherically Silicon Valley-rich, are not like you and me. Not only do they not have to sweat not having a pension or outliving their loot, they are flush enough to splurge on the very crux of life itself – solving death. And if that sounds like a tall order, as Carolyn Abraham reveals in “Can I Live Forever?” on page 44, Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg,…

WEARABLE FITNESS TRACKERS – in the form of bands, bracelets and watches – are considered cool, high-tech gadgets used to track your every waking moment and sleep patterns, nudge you to move when you’ve sat for too long and tell you to step it up during an activity or workout. Celebrity personal trainer Harley Pasternak (harleypasternak.com) is a big believer that the right tools can help you stay active and maintain mobility, strength and endurance, all of which help slow down or reverse bone density loss and muscle atrophy. He uses the Fitbit to help guide and motivate his red-carpet clients. MOTIVATION TO MOVE Stay Active Throughout the Day Look at your daily life and find ways to work fitness in, says Pasternak. Can you take a longer route to…

A Message from the President Moses Znaimer on the assisted dying legislation ISUPPOSE THE BEST that can be said about the Liberal Assisted Dying Bill is that it’s a start; that it’s a way to overcome the shock of the new and get the least controversial elements of this new “right” on the books, from which it can evolve into the more evolved law its many supporters hoped it would be. But it’s also perverse. It’s hard to believe, but the Liberals are poised to pass a law in apparent contradiction to the Supreme Court case that brought about the law in the first place; a law that might even not have allowed Sue Rodriguez, who started all this, a choice. This can only lead to more protracted litigation, resulting…

THE QUESTION INEVITABLY ARISES: if walking can turn back Parkinson’s symptoms and can delay the onset of Huntington’s, both degenerative diseases, might it have a role to play in the commonest degenerative disease of the brain – Alzheimer’s disease? The question is especially important because there are no effective medications for Alzheimer’s. Yet Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s have similarities. Dr. Mark P. Mattson, chief of the National Neurosciences Laboratory at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, has shown that many of the cellular processes that cause problems in Parkinson’s also occur in Alzheimer’s but in different brain areas. In Parkinson’s, the substantia nigra [which releases neurotransmitters that help control movement and co-ordination] begins to malfunction first. In Alzheimer’s, degenerative changes begin in the hippocampus (which turns short-term memories…

CANCER CAN BE a difficult discussion, but the newest ways we can detect the disease are worth talking about. These six scientific starters are all about getting an early diagnosis, which can lead to a vastly better outcome. 1 A Hole New Thing A biomedical engineering team at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is using nanopores – incredibly tiny holes – to detect early signs of cancer. The Israeli researchers are working with nanopores that are about 100,000 times thinner than a piece of paper. When these holes are drilled into ultra thin silicon membranes, they can be used in the lab to scan the properties of suspect DNA molecules as they pass through them, potentially picking up on biomarkers for colorectal and lung cancers before they’ve progressed past stage…

Natasha Turner is a Toronto-based naturopath (www.clearmedicine.com) and author of New York Times bestseller The Supercharged Hormone Diet. She describes the book as a complete wellness plan to teach men and women of all ages how to do everything they do everyday “to optimize hormones.” Here, a weight-loss hit list. Excess Estrogen Turner notes that the World Health Organization recognizes excess estrogen as one of the major causes of obesity in men and women. Improve digestion and liver detoxification to help rid the body of surplus estrogen from exposure to things like BPA in plastics, parabens in skin care and birth-control pills. Thyroid The thyroid produces hormones that regulate metabolism as well as heart and digestive function. Poorly functioning thyroid is one of the most commonly mismanaged conditions, says Turner,…

*writer not shown LIKE MANY PEOPLE growing up in a small town in the ’60s and ’70s, I come from a modest household. If, after showering, any member of my family had forgotten their robe, they could be glimpsed darting the short distance from bathroom to bedroom clutching for dear life to a towel. At 53, I still dress and undress quickly in change rooms and wear a bathing suit in the women’s-only hot tub at the spa. I am at once embarrassed by and in awe of the lockerroom ladies who lollygag about stark naked, comfortable doing everything from blow-drying their hair to selling me a chocolate bar in support of some youngster’s soccer team. Such women intimidate me, intrigue me and challenge my idea of who I am.…

Finessing the wait The phrase “pensioner-aged Charles who waits and waits” [“Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” May] brings to mind the phrase “They also serve who only stand and wait.” The difference here is the idea that he who hustles while he waits will be more successful. Charles has made a life of hustling whether it is philosophical or physical. He shows up everywhere, even in Zoomer, with his ideas of making the world a better place to live. He should get a rousing hurrah for his life of contribution, second only to his mother’s. —Nancy Albright, Mattawa, Ont. Stand Tall, Stay Strong About two years ago, I started standing up straighter [“Posture, Please,” May]. I had a little back problem, and standing tall seemed to help. I continued to stand…

HIS Pop culture has seen its share of sexy bald men. Think Patrick Stewart, Sean Connery, Michael Jordan. Or further back, Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas. More and more, we’re seeing a trend toward shaved heads as men give in to hair loss and embrace a bare pate. No one loves a comb-over unless they are a Trump supporter. But what if you’re a man who isn’t ready for the razor? You’re not alone. By the age of 50, 85 per cent of men will have what the American Hair Loss Association (AHLA) calls “significant thinning hair.” “Men go through different phases of acceptance and action when it comes to addressing hair thinning and loss, with a more reactive approach,” explains Aveda Canada creative director, Kristjan Hayden. “They may begin…

“People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I’m not arrogant, I’m focused” —Russell Crowe tHE COUPLE WITH the most chemistry at this year’s Oscar ceremony wasn’t George and Amal. That honour went to an unlikely duo: actors Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, whose backstage and onstage banter as presenters sent the Twittersphere into a tizzy. The two dudes quipped and bantered like an old married couple with high-octane testosterone. The reason for their seemingly random pairing? They star together in The Nice Guys, a buddy-detective movie released May 20th, that takes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when a down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Gosling) hires an enforcer Jackson Healy (Crowe) and they must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death…

SUNDRIED TOMATO AND COCONUT QUINOA BURGERS Coconut and sundried tomatoes are amazing together, and combined with super-seed quinoa, these burgers are top-notch. For a gluten-free option, use gluten-free buns. Serves 4, gluten-free Prep: 25 mins | Cook: 30 mins ½ cup quinoa (or 1 cup leftover cooked quinoa) 1½ cups water 8-10 sundried tomatoes (drypacked, not in oil) ¼ cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1 clove garlic, minced 2 tbsp pumpkin purée 1 tbsp melted coconut oil, plus extra for cooking 2 tsp fennel seeds 4 burger buns Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Salad greens or sprouts and avocado Rinse the quinoa in a fine mesh sieve. In a small pan, bring the quinoa and water to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and…

View KITTY COHEN challenged me to a game of Scrabble when we last met. It was at the launch event for the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre’s One Walk to End Cancer – and Kitty was the main draw. She will be participating again this year, at the age of 103. I first met her six years ago, after an organizer casually mentioned that the oldest walker was 97 – I jumped at the chance for an interview. Since then, Kitty has become a celebrity with an impressive portfolio of coverage on television, radio and print. She’s even thrown out the first pitch at a Blue Jays’ game. “103, come jive with me,” she recited by way of greeting. “104, I wouldn’t mind for some more. And 105, I’m glad to…

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“Everybody’s got a bomb, we could all die any day, But before I let that happen, I’ll dance my life away”PRINCE ROGERS NELSON 1958 – 2016 With a little help from their friends Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran and Boston protest anti-LGBT laws in North Carolina and Mississippi. A 3-D scanner uses the shape, folds and wrinkles of a person’s face to predict their age The machine’s agegauging proved uncanny until it scanned Keith Richards’ face and exploded. U.S. scientists discover how to freeze and reanimate brains So we’ll accept that scientists can pull a Frankenstein on a brain, but the idea that Prime Minister Trudeau’s brain contains knowledge of quantum computing is too outlandish for cynical media? The PM is also named to Time…

IN THE past few seasons, fashion has seemingly developed an obsession with older women. Ignored in the past, made to feel invisible or seen as an undesirable consumer, older women are now being embraced – wrinkles, grey hair and all. From 94-year-old Iris Apfel to a posse of prominent pensioners like Joan Didion, Charlotte Rampling and Helen Mirren, women aged 70 and beyond are now starring in highprofile advertisements for fashion and beauty brands. And everyday women of that age have become social media stars with fashion bible Vogue declaring that their Instagram “feeds offer something different from the typical ultrafiltered teen beat. Filled with daring personal style ... and a peek at women who embrace fashion on their own terms. This is what real style looks like.” This current…