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"A fascinating and extremely helpful book for anyone planning to switch careers-from one of the nation's leading experts on the subject."
Richard Eisenberg, CBS MoneyWatch.com

"Kerry Hannon is a top-rate personal finance journalist filled with smart practical advice."
Diane Harris, Executive Editor, Money magazine

“Follow Hannon’s road-map to make sure you’re on the way to a passionate—and prosperous—career.” |
Jean Chatzky, Best-selling Author of The Difference and Pay it Down
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"A must-read for anyone-at any age-curious about a career change. A perfect blend of inspirational, readable stories and logistical, practical advice," Beth Kobliner,
Author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties.
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"Hannon's engaging profiles reflect the passion of those who have chosen to take a different path with their lives while her practical, how-to advice will make the journey smoother for others who are still summoning up the courage to take that leap of faith."
Tim Smart, Executive Editor, U.S. News & World Report

"Kerry Hannon provides an essential roadmap and guidebook, full of great ideas."
Jim Connor, Assistant Managing Editor, CNBC Business News

 "Hannon's practical guide is a must-read for anyone in a career transition and life reinvention."
Brian Kurth, President, VocationVacations & Brian Kurth+Company Buy the Book

Health
How to Safely Combat Menopause Symptoms With Hormone Therapy PDF Print E-mail
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Younger women tormented by hot flashes are coming back for an ultralow dose

By Kerry Hannon
Posted: December 15, 2009
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Video: The Life Change of Menopause

For three years, Susan Kirchoff tried all the usual remedies to manage her menopausal hot flashes—exercise, soy foods, herbal supplements. But she still woke up with her nightgown sopping night after night. "My husband thought he was going through it, because I was making him sweat," says the 53-year-old health center director from Portland, Ore. Exhausted and desperate, she talked to her doctor about hormone therapy and her own personal risks: a family history of breast cancer and an elevated platelet blood count, which put her at increased risk of blood clots and stroke. In October, when blood tests revealed a normal platelet count, she decided, "I needed relief." Sure enough, within a few weeks of affixing a dime-size estrogen patch onto her abdomen, Kirchoff's hot flashes ceased. She plans to stay on the estrogen for a few years.
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Retiring before you're Medicare eligible? PDF Print E-mail
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Get ideas on paying for health care

Published in USAA 

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For millions of boomers who retire early, one of the biggest obstacles is figuring out how to pay for health insurance until 65 — the magic age when Medicare kicks in.

Little wonder that a recent AARP survey showed that more than one in five Americans age 45 to 64 reported not being confident that they could afford medical care in 2009. "Boomers are at a high risk of being uninsured, and they're particularly worried," says AARP senior vice president Cheryl Matheis. "They're concerned about losing their job-based coverage or not keeping up with the high premiums of individual coverage."
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10 Ways to Ease Those Menopause Symptoms PDF Print E-mail
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Acupuncture, exercise, and deep breathing can all help you glide through the transition

September 8, 2009

In the years since hormone therapy was dethroned as the best way to adjust to menopause—the transition ranges from a few symptom

-free months to six or more life-disrupting years—how have women adapted? While some are simply toughing it out, others are trying numerous approaches, many nonmedical, to manage their hot flashes, chills, vaginal dryness, breast tenderness, sleep disruptions, headaches, and mood swings. Here are 10 strategies that can help you make the transition smoothly:

 
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5 Nutrition Facts About Milk and Healthy Kids PDF Print E-mail
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Including some surprising things about whole milk, flavored milk, and lactose intolerance

Posted March 20, 2009

Corrected on 3/23/09: Pediatrician Frank Greer said he misspoke in a quotation appearing in an earlier version of this article. He was referring to the first two years of life, not the first year only.

Here are five things you should know about your kids and milk:

1. They need to drink more. Milk contains nine essential nutrients and vitamins, including protein, vitamins A, D, and B12, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, riboflavin, niacin, zinc, and magnesium. Children who drink milk tend to have "superior" overall nutrient intakes compared with children who don't drink milk, according to a study released last year by researchers at Environ International Corp., the University of Vermont, and the National Dairy Council. Yet only a third to a half of American children and adolescent boys consume the government-recommended number of dairy servings, and fewer than one in five adolescent girls meets the recommendation. Adolescents should drink three 8-ounce glasses of reduced-fat or skim milk (or equivalent products, such as yogurt) daily.
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Raw Milk Is Gaining Fans, but the Science Says It's Dangerous PDF Print E-mail
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Dairy farm owners report growing interest in buying shares in their cows

Posted March 20, 2009
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Kitty Hockman-Nicholas's phone is ringing off the hook. Callers to her dairy farm in Winchester, Va., are so eager to buy a share in one of her 20 hormone-free, grass-fed Jersey cows that she expects her 150 cow co-owners to double in number this year.

Why buy a cow? For the unpasteurized raw milk. A growing number of consumers are keen to drink raw milk, for reasons ranging from a desire to buy locally produced food to taste to a belief in its purported health benefits. Word of mouth abounds of how raw milk cleared up asthma and ear infections in children, improved osteoporosis in seniors, and even made autistic kids function better. (Pasteurization—subjecting milk to a short burst of heat to kill bacteria, followed by rapid cooling—has been standard protocol since the 1920s in this country.) Sally Fallon, founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based advocate for consumption of whole, natural foods, estimates that more than 500,000 consumers regularly consume raw milk and claims that the number "is growing exponentially."
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