Was: chili terror; Now: Aging Gardeners

**"* H* <g*@charter.net>**

Rose Marie's advice to get a mammogram regularly is appreciated, especially 
by the female members of this list.  It gives you piece of mind, if nothing 
else and most insurance companies cover the cost fully, as it's preventative 
medicine.

Many of us garden writers are getting older and our bodies show the signs of 
time and gardening.  Demographic studies show that avid gardeners are older. 
Brian Minter presented an excellent workshop in OKC on connecting with Gen X 
& Y that bore out the premise that true gardeners are mostly over 42 years. 
I sense there are a more than a few opportunities to sell articles to 
gardening publications on the aging gardener, plus plenty of fodder for 
podcasts, blogs and radio.

Adding information to any article on how to reduce body stress and strain is 
timely, in my humble opinion.  And, gardening certainly brings joy to those 
who have health issues.  Several recent studies show that healing is faster, 
stress levels drop and fuller recoveries are made when patients are exposed 
to plants and gardens.
Doreen Howard 

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