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Food for Life
Hangry bacteria in your gut microbiome are linked to chronic disease

"Your health is what you eat." Author: Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Washington Diet-related chronic diseases have reached a critical juncture in the U.S. Nearly half the population has prediabetes or diabetes. Over 40% are overweight or obese. One in nine people over the age of [...]

Susan Troyer2023-05-01T22:56:57-05:00April 24th, 2023|Categories: Food For Life, General|Tags: Chronic disease, chronic diseases, Diet, gut microbes, Gut microbiome, Healthy diet, mitochondria, ultra-processed food, unhealthy diet|0 Comments

Food for Life
Taste of Guanajuato City – Among Best-Kept Secrets!

“The first annual Taste of Chicago took up the three city blocks just north of the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Nearly 250,000 people showed up that day to sample restaurant food in the sunshine.” It was 1980 and my sister Sal and I were among those present for that first annual [...]

Susan Troyer2023-03-18T16:09:51-05:00February 11th, 2023|Categories: Food For Life, General|Tags: ChicagoFest, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, Taste of Chicago|0 Comments

Featured Book
American Dementia – Reflections, highlights, and ruminations from a daughter’s perspective

Awarded a National Mature Media Awards’ Gold designation for 2022 Authors: Daniel George, PhD, MSc, is Associate Professor in Medical Humanities, Penn State University College of Medicine. He is co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer’s: What You Aren’t Being Told About Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis (2008). He earned his MSc and [...]

Susan Troyer2026-02-25T16:03:59-06:00November 2nd, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Dr. Daniel George, Dr. Peter Whitehouse, National Mature Media Awards’ Gold designation for 2022|2 Comments

Radical disruption: Awareness!
A Few Facts About Ageism

"Ageism refers to the stereotypes (how we think), prejudices (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) towards others or oneself based on age." - World Health Organization There are many forms of ageism, including these: Internalized: how we feel about ourselves as aging people; and ageism in which [...]

Susan Troyer2022-10-08T16:09:04-05:00October 3rd, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: The American Society on Aging observes Ageism Awareness Day|0 Comments

A Clarion Call
ABeautifulVoice.org joins the American Society on Aging in Celebration of Ageism Awareness Day

ABeautifulVoice.org joins the American Society on Aging to celebrate Ageism Awareness Day on Oct. 7, 2022. Modeled after the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons (Oct. 1), Ageism Awareness Day provides an opportunity to draw attention to the existence and impact of ageism in our society. “Aging is not [...]

Susan Troyer2023-05-11T22:41:11-05:00September 30th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: American Society on Aging observes Ageism Awareness Day|0 Comments

Our soul purpose
Research findings, media stories and articles to inspire new narratives about people living with dementia

Welcome to ABeautifulVoice.org...! Mission: A lifestyle digest amplifying ways to humanize the care of people living with dementia, including approaches from psychology, society and culture. The digest not only challenges the conventional model but also seeks to enlarge the discussion of soul care. It is created, curated, and compiled for all [...]

Susan Troyer2022-09-08T15:55:45-05:00September 8th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Alzheimer's, Dementia, Lifestyle digest|0 Comments

Food for life
Important Rush University study: Just one cup of leafy greens adds 11 healthy years to your life!

Can eating just one cup of greens per day add 11 healthy years to your life? A 2017 study from Rush University involving 1,000 adults came to some stunning conclusions. The researchers found that people who ate just one serving of leafy greens per day (think spinach, kale, collard greens, [...]

Susan Troyer2022-09-08T20:51:02-05:00September 8th, 2022|Categories: Food For Life, General|Tags: Enhancing cognitive health with our food choices, Improving brain health, John and Ocean Robbins, Remembering names and details better, The Food Revolution Summit|0 Comments

Addressing Ageism Awareness
‘Covid Hit Us Over the Head With a Two-by-Four’: Addressing Ageism With Urgency

“Covid hit us over the head with a two-by-four, [showing that] you can’t keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results” for seniors, Jess Maurer, executive director of the Maine Council on Aging, said in an October webinar on ageism in health care sponsored by [...]

Susan Troyer2022-09-03T12:53:09-05:00September 2nd, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Aging, Community health|0 Comments

Mindful music support
The music app supporting dementia care at home

"Currently, the aged care sector is in crisis, with devastating outcomes reported by the Royal Commission into Aged Care. The Commission’s report highlighted the benefits and subsequent need for music therapy, and MATCH goes at least a part of the way to increasing access to the benefits of music therapy [...]

Susan Troyer2022-09-01T22:11:13-05:00September 1st, 2022|Categories: General, Music as Medicine|Tags: AGED CARE MUSIC, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Music therapy|0 Comments

Leadership matters
Riane Eisler: Leading the shift from a dominator culture to a partnership culture

Since her 1987 publication of The Chalice and the Blade, I have followed the work of Riane Eisler, JD, social scientist, attorney, and author. “Partnerism,” a word which she has introduced, is a model for creating a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination. [...]

Susan Troyer2022-09-05T22:19:39-05:00August 29th, 2022|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Becoming a partnership culture, Dr. Riane Eisler, Lucy Garrick, TheSystemsThinker.com|0 Comments