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“The idea that Alzheimer’s is entirely genetic and unpreventable is perhaps the greatest rmisconception about the disease,” says Gary Small, M.D., director of the UCLA Center on Aging.
Researchers now know that Alzheimer’ s, like heart disease and cancer, develops over decades and
can be influenced by lifestyle factors including cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, depression, education, nutrition, sleep and mental, physical and social activity.
The big news: Mountains of research reveals that simple things you do every day might cut your odds of losing your mind to Alzheimer’s.
Researchers in Scotland conducted a study
in which they found low-dose aspirin used regularly can cut the risk of colorectal cancer by a third.
After just one year of taking a daily dose of 75 milligrams, patients had reduced their colon cancer risk by 13 percent, the study found.
After five years of taking the same daily dose,
the risk was reduced by 37 percent.
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his maternal grandmother had hypertrichosis, known as werewolf syndrome.
Each had facial hair, even as children.
The letter further stated that his mother was born a hermaphrodite, with both male and female reproductive organs.
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Vitamin B is being hailed as a potential new treatment to fight Alzheimer’ s and other form
s of dementia.
Daily doses of B vitamins halved the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems, according to a two-year U.K. study.
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Alice Park writes:
Now they’ve connected another personality profile with heart problems: Type D.
People who are Type D, says Johan Denollet, a professor of psychology at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, have a negative outlook on life and tend to suppress these dour feelings and emotions.
For the most part,
they are reserved and socially inhibited.
But, he insists, they are not necessarily depressed.
Individuals classified as Type D do not exhibit all the symptoms of clinical depression, which include changes in mood that vary more than the chronic consistency of personality traits
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A gene that ca uses
shortsightedness has been pinpointed by British scientists, paving the way for eye drops
that could make glasses history.
With in just ten years, a drug that prevents short-sightedness or stops it
in its tracks could be
in widespread use.
Thomas Ramey Watson is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University's College of Professional Studies. He has served as an Episcopal chaplain (lay), trained as a psychotherapist, done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, and was named a Research Fellow at Yale University.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he is a published author of poetry and fiction.