Whole Brain Health (WBH) is launching a monthly series of programs and live music concerts based on the theme of “Aging with Purpose.” Presentations will be made by some of the most knowledgeable and well-respected experts in the field of aging, and the musicians will be sharing originals as well as covers of your favorites.
The live music events will be held in our new Purpose Venue on Inspiration Island, where you can explore WBH's many programs and exhibits (including the Nourish to Flourish Road Trip hosted by Sue and Lou our wise old owls) while listening and dancing to live music.
Entrance to the Purposeful Aging Venue
The Purposeful Aging Stage
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Aubryn Stevens and her avatar Aubryn in Second Life. Clikc either image to hear her perfomrance at WBH's Purposeful Aging Venue on November 4th.
Different Foods for Different Folks
(A whole Brain Health Purposeful Aging Presentation)
On Sunday, November 8th, Whole Brain Health launched the first in its Purposeful Aging series with a talk by Gentle Heron (Alice Krueger) titled, “Different Foods for Different Folks.”
Gentle Heron is the founder of Virtual Ability* in Second Life and has long been interested in how food can affect a person’s health depending on their physical condition, age, and where they are in life. Her presentation will discuss the myth of the “standard diet,” which is based on a set of averages. Few people, she points out, are average. Nutritional needs can vary widely from person to person and must take things like gender, life stage, activity level, chronic disease, genetics, and gut microbiome into account.
Gentle will also share research-based insights into the many ways we can help ourselves be proactive about our health by understanding who we are and where we are in our life cycle.
*Virtual Ability is a 5013C a non-profit organization whose mission is enable people with physical, mental, emotional, developmental, and sensory disabilities to enter, explore, and thrive in virtual environments.