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Another delicious way to eat (and prepare) fruit

DRIED FRUIT CAN BE A TASTY APERITIF, A HEALTHY SNACK OR A SPECIAL TOUCH TO ADD TO YOUR DISHES. YOU CAN ALSO PREPARE THEM EASILY AT HOME. The use of dehydrated or dried fruit goes back thousands of years, probably because they can be preserved in perfect condition for much longer than fresh fruit. The traditional method to obtain dried fruit comes from a natural drying process under the sun. This is how the famous Malaga raisins are produced for example, drying the fresh grapes from the Moscatel de Málaga and Moscatel de Alejandría varieties. The bunches are placed...

Life expectancy in Spain has doubled in only 4 generations

SPAIN IS ONE OF THE COUNTRIES WITH THE LONGEST LIFE EXPECTANCY FROM BIRTH, WITH AN AVERAGE OF 85 YEARS FOR WOMEN AND 79 FOR MEN. IT CONTINUES TO INCREASE AT A RHYTHM OF THREE AND A HALF MONTHS TO FOUR MONTHS A YEAR. Over the past 100 years, life expectancy of people born in Spain has increased by more than 40 years. This means double the life span of the era when your great grandparents were born. Double the life span! The increase is spectacular. There isn’t only one reason that explains this growth, which maintains a stable rhythm...

Incredible domino runs

LOOK AT WHAT THIS ORIGINAL ARTIST DOES WITH DOMINO PIECES FROM THE POPULAR BOARD GAME. This story combines a more than one-thousand-year old board game with one of the most recent ways of earning money on the Internet: generating content which can be freely accessed (that later make money through advertising, subscriptions, sale of related products and other means). The game dominos has its origin as a form of entertainment in China, and came about from other games involving darts. The pieces used to be made out of bone and had a pin on each side which held the...

Healthy and active ageing

FORTUNATELY, EVERY DAY THERE IS MORE AND MORE AWARENESS ABOUT AGEING AS AN ADDITIONAL STAGE IN LIFE IN WHICH YOU CAN CONTINUE TO FULLY ENJOY NEW EMOTIONS. Over the past years we have seen lots of reports, warnings and adverts: the world’s population is ageing. The estimations have been proven right and tendencies are being consolidated. You only have to look at the graph that shows the evolution of the elderly population over 65 years of age in Spain (the red line) that in 2014 represented 18% of the total population, that of the United Kingdom (in purple) with...

Five tips to keep your sex life going

SEX ISN’T ONLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, AND YOU KNOW IT. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SEX, THERE ARE NO RULES, ASIDE FROM THOSE THAT YOU VOLUNTARILY DECIDE UPON IN YOUR PRIVATE LIFE. LET’S DISCUSS SOME TIPS TO KEEP YOU ACTIVE IN BED. Many people are surprised that older women and men have sex, some are even “horrified” by the thought of it. A lot of the ignorance about sex and older people comes from the urgent need that we have to label people instead of taking them as we find them, and partly due to the deep cultural fear of...

Category: HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

Another delicious way to eat (and prepare) fruit

Life expectancy in Spain has doubled in only 4 generations

Incredible domino runs

Healthy and active ageing

Five tips to keep your sex life going