Keeping Your Senses Sharp There are two fundamental facts that life teaches us as we age: The dosage information on cough syrup bottles is entirely too small to read, and teenagers mumble so much that you can never understand them. Either that or our eyesight and hearing are starting to go. Keen eyesight and precise hearing are important to us our senses, after all, are our links to the world around us as we beautify our homes, clarify our career goals, pursue interests that we may not have had time for during our twenties, and watch our children grow toward adulthood. So it makes good sense to keep our senses sharp and youthful. Hear Ye, Hear Ye How old were you when you went to your first amp shaking, rip roaring rock concert? How often have you been startled by a blast of volume when you slipped on your headphones at the start of your daily walk or jog? Can you count the times you've had to raise your voice to converse with a friend in city traffic? As we go about our twenty first century lives, the tiny cells in our inner ears take a daily battering from amplified sound waves. Add the racket from snowblowers or lawn mowers on the weekends to the relentless engine revs and brake screeches of city streets, and the "Sounds of Silence" that Simon and Garfunkel once popularized seem like pure nostalgia. But even before life got so loud, our ears didn't necessarily age gracefully. Age related hearing loss is quite literally an age old problem. It just happens to be one that we think won't ever happen to us. Perhaps that's why women rarely come on their own volition to see John W. House, M.D., president of the renowned House Ear Institute In Los Angeles. "Quite frankly, it's usually the husband or the partner who makes an issue of hearing loss. He'll have been saying, 'You know, I don't think your hearing is as good as it used to be,"' Dr. House says. She tags along reluctantly, hoping to prove him wrong. It's very tempting to pretend it's not happening. Anti Aging Anti Aging Generation| Anti Aging Health Strategy| Anti Aging for Women| Take a Bite Out of Aging| Check the Index| Aim Low| Fat Factor| The Zobra Diet| Bulf Of Long Life| What about Meat?| Get the Protein, Forgo the Fat| The Taxic Avengers| Great Ways to Ambush Radicals| Going Vegetarian Sparked Her Youth| Is That a Toxin in My "Soup"?| Put Your Diet into Rehab| Little Bean, Big Benefits| Sneaking Soy into Your Diet| The Anti Aging Supplements| Alpha Lipoic Acid| Vitamins Minerals| Bioflavonoids| Coenzyme-Q10| Flaxseed Oil| Ginkgo| Are Harmone Supplements Safe?| Melotonin| Phoaphatidylserine| Pycnogenol| Vitamin C| Vitamin E| Aerobics| Disease-Proof Your Body| Liven Up Your Lifestyles| 12 Tips For a Better Workout| Weather Your Workout| Water| Erasing the Lines of Time| Skin Enemy Number One: The Sun| Sunscreen to the Rescue| A Sunscreen Primer| Sun Tips for Sun Junkies| Clean Up Your Act| Perfect Cleanser| Navigating Moisturizer Maze| The Care and Feeding of Youthful Skin| Special Problems of Aging Skin Cosmetic Nutrients Cosmetic Nutrients| Get Glowing with Glycolic Acid| User's guide of Glycolic Acids| Retin-A and Renova| Using Retin-A and Renova| Vitamin C: Future Youth?| Don't Get Lost at "C"| Getting the Most from C Makeups Makeup That Enhances| Foundation| Concealer| Blush| Powder| Eye Makeup| Lipstick| Winning the Battle of the Mane| Color to the Youthful| Dressed to Impress| Acting Your Age| 10 Attributes of a Youthful Mind Right Weight Getting Your Right Weight| Weighing In| Say Goodbye to Dieting| Putting Exercise into Everyday Events| Defying Disease| Disease Proof Your Lifestyle| Arthritis| Cancer| Diabetes| Heart Disease and Stroke| Osteoporosis|Keeping Your Senses Sharp|Can You Speak Little Louder?|Preventing Hearing Loss|Target Hearing Loss Early|The Eyes Have It|Buying Sunglasses|Eyes Need Exercise|The Life of Visionary Memory Memory Like an Elephant| Keeping the Brain Up and Running|Improving Your Everyday Memory| Get Organized| Living a Memory Enhancing Lifestyle Sleep Sweet Sleep and Relaxation| Turning Out the Lights, Naturally| Easing Toward Dreamland|When All Else Fails