Healthinfo Island Displays and Exhibits for August 2026

In Second Life, you can teleport to any of the eight displays and exhibits using the SLURLs in this posting. Click on the poster with the same name as the title of the poster set, and you will get a notecard that contains all the text of the posters plus descriptions of the images.  If you click each poster, you will get a private message with additional information and live links.



How Do We Change with Age?
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/195/158/22



Cataracts
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/188/181/24



August is Water Quality Month
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/172/155/22



Contact Lens Health
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/114/79/24



Hearing Aids
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/98/40/26



Hydration for Health
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/50/28/28

Health Habits to Start Today
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/24/23/30

Fiber and the Brain
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/21/63/32


Central Pavilion of Healthinfo Island

Check out the calming breathing exercise on the back wall!
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Healthinfo%20Island/128/126/24

Thank you to Mook for help with the posters this month.

Wheelchair Development Contest!

Virtual Ability is pleased to present “Mobility Without Limits“, a contest for Second Life creators to build wheelchairs that improve accessibility, mobility, expression, and roleplay for Second Life residents.

The wheelchair development contest runs through September 30, 2026. Winners will be announced by October 10, 2026.

For more details, click the link below:

https://virtualability.org/contest/

Nutrition Tip – Healthy Meals for One

If you are a singleton cook, you’ve probably experienced the boredom of sandwich, ramen, canned soup, or nuked frozen burrito meals. Perhaps your menu rotation needs a refresh to make it more nutritious (and less expensive) than fast food or take-out.

Here are some good-tasting and healthy suggestions for future meals when cooking for one.

• https://recipes.heart.org/en/collections/courses/one-dish-meal
• https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/healthy-meals-one-recipes
• https://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/everyday-dietitian/simple-meal-recipes-for-non-cooks/ 
• https://www.eatingwell.com/gallery/12892/healthy-recipes-for-one-serving/

 In case grocery shopping for one seems like a challenge, here are some suggestions for that task as well: 

• https://food52.com/story/24948-how-to-grocery-shop-for-one
• https://www.allrecipes.com/article/cooking-buying-food-for-one/
• https://outofmilk.com/ideas/single-guys/
• https://aweekendcook.com/how-to-grocery-shop-for-one-person-avoid-food-waste/

Here’s wishing you a happier, healthier time in your one-person kitchen. 

Tech Tip – You can now change your Gmail name!

Gmail recently turned 22 years old. Like many no-longer-teens, Gmail has now realized how immature some of us who’ve used it for a while were when we set up our email accounts that long ago.

Silly email names that were cute and fun back then now look unprofessional and can sometimes be downright embarrassing.

It’s time to fix that. US users can now change their Google account and email name, the part in front of @gmail.com.

The good news is that your old emails will remain accessible, users can still send to your previous name, and you will be able to login under either old or new name. The even better news is that you can make your resumé look a lot more adult.

Note that you can only change your Google account name once every 12 months. But hey, it’s past time to ditch FluffyTeddyBear@gmail.com and switch up to TedJones@gmail.com.

Here are the instructions: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-account-username-change/

Warning to Chromebook users: you will need to back up your local files, then relog after initiating the name change. You will also need to delete machines connected via Chrome Remote Desktop and add them back under your new address.

Make this name change now, if you need to. Looking at you, 44-year-old SexiBarbiBabi.