I recently decided to leave my home in Manhattan where I lived for my entire adult life. At first, this idea was exciting and intriguing. Imagine…starting an entire new life in my 70’s!
As I made plans to re-locate to the Caribbean island of Tortola, the initial confidence began to wan. In short, the feeling that [...]

Recently all sorts of ads are appearing to motivate us to denyour fears lest they hold us back from achievement. As a therapist, and someone who has overcome many fears, I want to advsie against that philosophy.
I believe that you have to FACE YOUR FEARS, not deny that they exist. Sure, that’s a scary prospect, [...]

In the middle of all this controversy about Health Care, McCain has introduced a bill to place all supplements in the hands of physicians. A huge movement to stop the bill managed to block its passage…for now. I urge you to be on the alert and as soon as any news of control over our [...]

Lately the press is making a big fuss about an incredibly effective healing modality called “blood spinning” or PrP (platelet rich plasma). The are tying it to blood doping, performance enhancing drugs and other illegal practices.
Once again, the pharmaceutical industry and the AMA is attempting to dupe the public out of the real story. [...]

That’s a provocative headline, but it’s to the point. I don’t know anyone who isn’t frightened of the downsides of aging. And, may I add, with good reason. Until I hit 68, I wondered what’s all this hype about how bad aging is…I felt the same as I always felt…energetic, vital and sexy. Then, BOOM, [...]

Just read in today’s Daily News that Cavalli is dating a woman 46 years younger than he. He’s in his 70’s and she’s 24! I heartily approve. Young and old make for great matches. And I know what I’m talking about. In my case the combination is rare and extraordinarily exquite…an older woman with a [...]

What a great idea. Famous and successful individuals are often mindless to the travails of the rest of society, as they revel in their triumphs. When Olympians use their fame to support human causes, it’s particularly wonderful. Lindsey Vonn is not only a gold medal winner on the slopes…she’s got a gold [...]

Well, now we have something to chew on, as he lies through his teeth. Mr. Wood’s words were wooden. Forgive? Forget? Who cares? He’s just another overpaid, overblown (yes, with blow jobs!) celebrity who can use his repulsive disgressions to generate more publicity. The way we treat celebrities in America is to co-indulge in their [...]

This is fashion week in New York, which is considered a time for festivity and excitement. Instead it is showing up as a horrid display of emaciated bodies in sky high unwalkable heels. Why are we women allowing this to happen? The media devotes pages and pages of color photos of walking cadavers who starve [...]

Ordinarily, the Olympics are an inspirational champion of the spirit of Man. But not this year! Individual athletes are receiving millions of dollars and being lauded for their achievements overcoming obstacles. All this fanfare while countless men, women and children are suffering on our very small Planet.
Is the festivity functioning as a denial of [...]

You over 50s may have been comfortably settled in with being called “Boomers”. That was a fine title for individuals who still experienced themselves as youthful and rife with potential. But, starting this year they will be referred to by the much-less appealing term, “Senior.” True, that new category has some upsides…like discounts, and Medicare [...]

The news media keeps assuring us that Clinton is “fine”. If he is actually fine, why did one of his bypass arteries clog up again? You can’t blame it on his past eating habits, as they say he’s cleaned up his diet. As a decades-long health food “fanatic” I can’t help but wonder if he [...]

We are increasingly being warned to avoid fats and sugars. They have both been implicated in heart attacks, cancer and obesity. But it is it really the sugar and the fat that are dangerous? I think not! The quesytion is not whether or not these two ingredients are present in foods…the question is what is [...]

There has been a great deal of negative press about Human Growth Hormone. Athletes and performers who choose to receive it as shots or intravenously become suspects of doping crimes. Let’s clear the air about these distortions.
Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Winston Churchill. George Bernard Shaw all periodically travelled to Switzerland for their HgH doses. They [...]

The headline in today’s Daily News read,” Autopsy: Jacko had gone wiggy & wore guyliner”
The article went on to describe the numerous ways that Michael had altered his looks in addition to surgery. He had a false hair wig woven into his sparse locks, black tatooed eye liner and pink lip liner to define [...]

Somewhere beneath the dreary gray sky, the sun is shining, but here in the thick of winter, you’d never know it. Our bodies and our spirits yearn for the warming glow of our precious sun, and, though we await the arrival of spring, it seems an eternity away. Lately, the medical profession has documented an [...]

I’m an older woman who loves beauty and glamour, but despite this, I’ve made the decision never to have cosmetic surgery to look either better or younger. In fact, I happen to be appalled at the decision that younger and younger women are making to surgically alter their faces…and other parts of their anatomy too. [...]

I don’t know when fear of aging begins for most people. In my case it began when I was only four years old! Really. My mother, a Russian immigrant would drag me to the Brighton Beach Steam Baths in Brooklyn where I’d be sweltering and sobbing in a room of fat, sweaty naked ladies. The [...]

It may be winter now, but here you’ll see me in a hot bathing suit!

Just in case you think that Cougars are in the closet… think again!!!!

Stay Hot,

Hattie

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent most of my young adult years being afraid that aging would turn me into a repulsive hag! Pretty strong language, wouldn’t you say? Sometimes fear motivates us into taking actions that we ordinarily shy away from. In my case, the fear and repulsion I experienced forced me [...]

Just as in my singing video below, I got used to people laughing at me when I boasted that I was going to find the Fountain of Youth. And when I discovered that it flows endlessly within each and every one of us, the scepticism still prevailed. Well, ha ha, ha who’s got the last [...]