to
The Doctor Bones Health Promotion Show
for
Seniors
__ A Healthy Lifestyle
_____Need Not Be Complicated.
Doctor Bones offers sound advice on an assortment of Health-related topics, including:
* Nutrition
* Exercise
* Food Safety
* Sleep
* Hygiene
* and much more…
Good Health,
_ is better than drawing a Royal Flush!
Having Good Health is like finding a Pot of Gold
 __at the end of a Rainbow!
In his show, "Be Healthy and have Fun too!"
Doctor Bones aka the "Funny Man of Health" examines health issues
important to seniors. Seniors can count on the Doctor to deliver the
latest in reliable science-based health information.
To schedule the Doctor Bones Show for your group:
Contact Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. (aka "Doctor Bones")
Phone: (845) 406-4623
Email: drmueller@optonline.net
Laughter is the Best Medicine!__
Check out the Senior Health Promotion Show Videos
 _Senior Health Show at Mulberry House
There
are plenty of Senior Health Promotion Show video clips to follow
discussing aging, nutrition, exercise, food safety and other such
issues important to keeping seniors in health and in good spirits!
Please feel free to stay awhile.
Doctor Bones - "The Health Guy"
Video 1 - Aging is not a disease.
Video 2 - Laughter is the Best Medicine. Myths of Aging.
Video 3 - More of the Myths of Aging.
Video 4 - Nutrition. Food Molecules. What Foods Provide.
Video 5 - Diet is a 4-letter word, but not a nasty one!
Video 6 - Your Body Knows Best.
Video 7 - Controlling food intake.
Video 8 - Caveman diet. What did the caveman do?
Video 9 - Letting your body do its job.
Video 10 - Don't deprive yourself of the foods you enjoy.
Video 11 - Reasonable Ways to Reduce Calories.
Video 12 - More Useful Ways to Reduce Calories.
Video 13 - If you don't like exercises, then call them activities.
Video 14 - Exercises for Politicians.
Video 15 - Couch Potato Exercises.
Video 16 - Doctor Bones: Exercise Invention.
Here
are some articles written about the Doctor Bones Health Show for
Seniors and several letters of recommendation written on behalf of the
show.
A nice letter I received from a senior at Riverwalk in the Bronx, NY.
Riverwalk Senior Apartments
5901 Palisade Avenue Riverdale, NY 10471
March 5, 2005
Dear Doctor Bones,
Thank you for your most wonderful and time consuming help. The class you gave was most enjoyable __ you have so many talents.
You are truly remarkable and true to your word.
_______________Sincerely,
________________Rhoda Birnbaum
June 8, 2006
Dr. Don R. Mueller
The Doctor Bones Show
200-H Kearsing Parkway
Monsey, N.Y. 10952
Dear Dr. Bones,
We
truly enjoyed both your wisdom and sense of humor as you performed your
wonderfully informative Health Promotion Show for our seniors on May
23, 2006. The health information you featured in your show was right on
the money with what seniors need to know.
The
food juggling was a unique way of introducing the food pyramid and the
various food groups. I'm sure that this was a first for many of the
members of the Airmont Senior Club to see so many fruits and vegetables
flying around. It was hilarious!
The
information you presented concerning health quackery and the steps
seniors can take to avoid losing their hard-earned money to these
quacks was much appreciated by those in attendance. Keep up your good
work as the "Scientist Who Saves People Money!"
Sincerely,
Judith Greenfader
Vice president, Airmont Senior Club
Introducing Doctor Bones at the Montebello Senior Center in Montebello, NY
It looks like we have a healthy gathering for the Doctor Bones Health Show for Seniors.
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Doctor Bones entertains at The Judith Lynn Assisted Living in the Bronx, NY.
Here seniors perform some of Doctor Bones' Couch Potato Exercises to help build muscle.
Remember,
if you want to lose fat, then build muscle. Muscle needs quite a bit of
energy, so if your goal is to lose fat, then by all means gain muscle!
Some of the many stops for the Health Promotion Show:
South Brunswick Senior Center (South Brunswick, NJ)
Mulberry House Senior Center (Middletown, NY)
Salute to Seniors (Westchester County, NY)
JCC-Y of Rockland - Senior Adult Program (New City, NY)
The Montebello Commons Senior Club (Suffern, NY)
The New Castle Senior Club (New Castle, NY)
XYZ Seniors Club of Allendale, NJ
Northern Metropolitan Services Group (Monsey, NY)
Morningside House (Bronx, NY)
Riverwalk Senior Community (Bronx, NY)
The Judith Lynn Assisted Living Center (Bronx, NY)
Airmont Gardens Senior Club (Suffern, NY)
In the Health Promotion Show for Seniors, we stress that a healthy lifestyle need not be a complicated one. By following some simple rules, we can lead a healthful, productive life and have fun too!
Let's examine some of the topics featured in the Doctor Bones Health Promotion Show:
* Nutrition (the Chemistry of Foods, Vitamins, Minerals and Spices)
* Exercise (exercise does not have to be painful to be effective)
* Food Safety
* Sleep (sleep and relaxation techniques)
* Hygiene
* Smoking
* Drugs and Alcohol
* You and Your Doctor
* The Power of Prayer
* In the Company of Pets
* Laughter is the Best Medicine
Nutrition: "You are what you Eat."
A healthful diet may go far in preventing diseases or in influencing the progression of diseases.
Nutritious diets have:
1) Adequacy - provide all of the essential nutrients in sufficient amounts.
2) Balance - provide foods that don't overemphasize one nutrient over
____________that of another.
3) Calorie control - a diet high in nutrition yet moderate in calories.
4) Moderation - not eating excessive amounts of any one food.
5) Variety - "Variety is the spice of life."
A healthy diet need not be dull.
Nutrition
Foods provide Essential Nutrients
Essential nutrients
are those substances that we must obtain from our diet because our body
cannot make these nutrients in sufficient quantities to meet the body's
needs. Vitamins, minerals and certain amino acids and fatty acids are
essential nutrients.
Nonessential nutrients
are substances that the body can construct from other available
compounds. Of course, nonessential nutrients may be obtained from our
diet as well.
We may also examine the nutrients that we need for good health in terms of Macronutrients and Micronutrients:
Macronutrients ("macro-" meaning large) are nutrients we require in large amounts, that is, on the scale of grams per day. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats are all examples of macronutrients.
To examine carbohydrates, proteins and fats in detail click on the following links:
Several minerals are also important to us on the milligrams to grams per day scale. We call them Macrominerals and they include Calcium, Chloride, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium and Sulfur.
Micronutrients are nutrients that we need in small amounts (milligrams or even as little as micrograms daily).
Vitamins, for example,
are organic molecules that are needed in milligram to microgram amounts. The water-soluble
vitamins that we require include vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and an assortment of B-vitamins: thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), biotin (vitamin B7), folic acid (vitamin B9) and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12). The fat-soluble vitamins we need include vitamin A (retinol), vitamin D (cholecalciferol), vitamin
E (alpha-tocopherol) and vitamin K (phylloquinone and menaquinone).
Check out the link on Vitamins for much more information:There are a number of Microminerals (also known as trace and ultra-trace minerals) that have been associated with human nutrition, including Cobalt, Copper, Chromium, Fluoride, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Selenium and Zinc. Several other trace minerals are also being investigated in connection with human nutrition, they are Arsenic, Boron, Nickel, Silicon, Tin and Vanadium.
What's all the Fuss about Fiber?
Although
dietary fiber is not an essential nutrient, there is substantial
evidence that
fiber is an important part of a healthy diet. Fiber is what many of us
have for years called "roughage," the stuff that we eat, but cannot
digest. Although fiber comes from many foods it is generally put into
two categories:
1) Water-Soluble Fiber: fiber that partially dissolves in water.
Gums
and pectin, which forms a gel in the presence of sugars and acid are
some of Nature's water-soluble fibers. Oatbran, nuts and seeds, legumes
(peas, beans and lentils) and fruits, such as apples, berries, bananas, prunes
and so on are all examples of foods that contain soluble fiber.
2) Water-Insoluble Fiber: fiber that does not dissolve in water.
Cellulose,
hemi-cellulose and lignin, which is referred to as Nature's cement are
examples of insoluble fibers. Some familiar foods that contain
insoluble fiber are whole grain products, brown rice, wheat bran and
vegetables such as carrots and celery.
Here are a few simple ways to increase your fiber intake:
* Try more whole-grain cereals and breads.
* Eat fruits and vegetables instead of drinking fruit and vegetable juices.
* If possible, don't peel fruits and vegetables. Wash well and eat. They're delicious.
* Replace white rice with brown rice.
* Add legumes (peas, beans and lentils) to traditional meat dishes.
A nice Tossed Salad_  is a great way
to get both soluble and insoluble fiber into your diet!
Essential Minerals
Macrominerals
Calcium
Sodium
Potassium
Magnesium
Sulfur
Microminerals (Trace Minerals)
Boron
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Fluoride
Iodine
Iron
Manganese
Molybdenum
Nickel
Selenium
Silicon
Tin
Vanadium
Zinc
Reading Food Labels
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___"Finally, a food label I can understand! Each serving
____contains 10 grams of fat and 5 grams of thin."
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