How much you eat alters more than your waistline. It also affects your body’s organs, starting with your pancreas. With each bite, your pancreas must release enough digestive juices and hormones for you to benefit from the food you eat. Putting too much stress on your pancreas—by too much eating, drinking, or smoking—can cause serious health issues.
The pancreas lies behind your stomach. It’s surrounded by the intestines, liver, and gallbladder. These neighboring organs work together to help you digest your food.
From the MedMD website
As the kidneys filter waste from the blood, they create urine. Sometimes, salts and other minerals in urine stick together to form small kidney stones. These range from the size of a sugar crystal to a ping pong ball, but they are rarely noticed unless they cause a blockage. They may cause intense pain if they break loose and push into the ureters, the narrow ducts leading to the bladder.
From the Motley Fool website
When most people hear the phrase “estate planning,” they immediately think of a will. However, while a will is often the cornerstone of an estate plan, there are certain types of assets it does not control, including insurance policies, individual retirement accounts, 401(k)s, and similar retirement accounts.
These assets can be worth huge sums of money, and if you want to make sure they pass to your loved ones with no problems when you die, you’ll need to take some extra steps beyond writing a will.
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From the Samantha Brown website
In 2012, Pinterest broke out to become a wildly popular site and app for collecting media across the Internet. People pin photos into collections called boards, which serve as big catalogs of objects. Pinterest, in effect, decomposes web pages into the objects that are embedded in them.
They say a picture says a thousand words, and the popularity of Pinterest certainly confirms that. You might think of this visual social media platform for recipes, hair and makeup tutorials or DIY projects, but have you ever used it to plan a vacation? It’s a great way to find blog posts and content that will help shape a memorable experience. Plus, it’s scientifically proven that we get an emotional boost from just planning travel. Since Pinterest is so visual, it makes it even more fun to put a trip together.
Here’s why you might want to use Pinterest to plan your next vacation
From the Time website
Watch out, retirement savers. President Donald Trump has put the wheels in motion to halt the Department of Labor’s rule requiring financial advisors to act in your best interest.
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the Department of Labor to review and potentially rescind a new regulation known as the “fiduciary rule,” planned to go into effect on April 10, 2017. Earlier, a White House official told TIME that “we want them to cease the implementation of this and completely review the fiduciary rule.”
For older adults, a fractured hip is often life-changing: The majority will never return to their former levels of independence and physical activity, according to new research.
“We all hope for full recovery, but less than half recover to their previous function after a hip fracture,” said Dr. Victoria Tang, lead author of the study.
The chances of recovery among hip-fracture patients older than 85 with dementia or other health problems are even lower, the study authors found.
Sharon Ellison is a 62-year-old retired school secretary in Lowell, Michigan. Her husband, 66, spent much of his career self-employed in modest endeavors. The couple doesn’t fit the mold of retirees who have enough disposable income to jet off to Europe regularly. And yet, they have visited the continent five times in recent years.
“My son wanted to go to Stonehenge [in 2007],” Ellison says of their first trip. “We totally got hooked on it.” Since then, they’ve been to Budapest, Prague, Paris, Switzerland, Vienna and Dublin, among other European cities. In between, they have traveled the country, camped in Yosemite and taken cruises. Now they are planning a journey to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, and have Africa in their sights as well.
The Ellisons aren’t rich. However, they began setting money aside for retirement travels early and have been smart about how they spend their dollars. Here are 15 tips for traveling in retirement, even if you aren’t sitting on a pile of cash.
Retirement is supposed to be your time to sit back, relax and enjoy spending the money you’ve spent decades earning and saving. Unfortunately, just because you’re not taking home a paycheck anymore doesn’t mean that Uncle Sam doesn’t want his cut of your income.
Many soon-to-be retirees don’t realize how big a bite taxes can take out of their nest eggs, even if they’re not paying Social Security or Medicare taxes. Ultimately, when you’re figuring out how much money you have for retirement, what really matters is how much you can actually spend.
Fortunately, some smart planning before retirement and a few strategic money moves in retirement can drastically reduce your IRS bill each year. “If you make a long-range tax plan, you can make adjustments as you go,” says Phil DeMuth, author of The Over-Taxed Investor. “If you don’t have a plan, you’ll end up getting whacked by high taxes you’re not expecting.”
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Donald Allen Fleming, 65. of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away January 8, 2017 in Nevada. Born November 24, 1951 in Honolulu. He retired as a supervisor for American Airlines and served in the Hawaii Army National Guard.
He is survived by wife, Abbie Yuen Fleming; daughter, Nicole W.K.O. Fleming; son, Ryan M.K.H. (Naomi) Fleming; mother, Betty Jane Delima Fick; brothers, Theodore P. (Julie) Fleming, Timothy T. (Connie) Fleming; 2 grandsons.
Visitation 5:30 p.m. Wednesday (February 22) at Mililani Mortuary Mauka Chapel; service 6:30 p.m. Visitation also 9:00 a.m. Thursday (February 23) at Mililani Mortuary Mauka Chapel; service 10:00 a.m. Burial to follow 11:00 a.m. Mililani Memorial Park. Casual attire. Flowers welcome.
From the Wired Magazine website
THE PORSCHE 911, like the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette, has pulled off the neat trick of remaining thoroughly modern yet utterly timeless. The latest models look a lot like the car that rolled into the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1963, making it instantly recognizable even to people with no interest in cars.
You never know who you’re sharing an elevator with — and back when Rockefeller Center still had elevator operators, it was easy to ignore the elderly Black man in the corner. Neither Eugene Bullard nor his neat uniform commanded the same attention as the 1950s Manhattan elites who shared his little space every evening.
But little did they know that they were sharing a lift with an American who had been smack in the middle of the most dramatic twists and turns of the 20th century. Bullard was a boxer, World War I fighter pilot, Paris nightclub owner and World War II resistance fighter. He escaped the Gestapo and was beaten by police at a civil-rights demonstration. But even for many years after his death, his legacy remained that of an unnoticed, forgotten elevator operator.
ID thieves can do a lot of damage if they get your Social Security number, which is why we recommend that you don’t carry your Social Security card or number in your wallet.
But Medicare beneficiaries are in a tough spot because SSN-based health claim numbers still appear on their Medicare cards. President Obama signed a law in April 2015 requiring the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to remove SSNs from Medicare cards, but the change is being implemented gradually
