We all continue to be somewhat baffled over how often to get mammograms and whom to trust as the last word on this critical issue for women. Hey, we all want to grow up to be old women, right?

Weeks after the release of the report on new recommendations for mammograms by the 16-member U.S. Preventative Task Force, the firestorm rages on, even splitting parties as Republicans argue that the recommendations could be used to ration healthcare under reform legislation before Congress, a charge Democrats denied.

According to Reuters, Republican Representative …

Tags: ABC News , breast cancer , health , health and women , health costs , Health insurance , health savings , insurance debate , Kaiser Permanente , mammograms , middle age women , prevention , screenings , seniors , treatment , U.S. Preventative Task Force , women , Yale University

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They chow down the same foods we healthy middle-aged women eat: Quinoa, lean proteins, fresh organic produce, water from chic reusable Sigg bottles. They drive hybrids and raise funds for good causes, shun the direct sun, and sometimes even wear secondhand fashion (couture, of course).

But tinsel town celebrities my age, like Demi Moore, who is featured on the cover of W Magazine this month, are not like me or any of my healthy, naturally beautiful women friends. No, unlike …

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My mother, the nice Jewish lady seen here at her box at the Hollywood Bowl,  is among the biggest paper and water consumers in the country. It hasn’t been easy getting her to turn over a new leaf. (Or rather, fewer of them.)

She has a varied and colorful history of helping herself to fistfuls of disposable napkins at restaurants, collecting hundreds of brown paper grocery bags from Gelson’s Market and requiring daily soaks or showers. She’s pretty darn clean, my mother.

“I never, ever get …

Tags: children , composting , conserving , Italy , Jewish mothers , Life in the Green Lane , parenting , recycling , renewable energy , seniors , towels

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Can sharing a pot of tea bring you closer to your friends? Perhaps, if you order Friendship Organic Tea from the UK. It’s not so strange to import tea from the people who do it best.

A blend of marigold flowers and hawthorn berries, the tea is 100% organically grown and packed. Here is the friendship connection: for each pack of tea sold, 5 pence is given to the Friends Fund – an organization that donates to kind individuals or groups recognized for helping others and offering new friendship.

The first recipient was Contact the …

Tags: friendship , organic , seniors , tea

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