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Signs of Memory Loss Found in Younger People
Loss of memory and other cognitive functions may start much earlier in life than previously thought, according to a clinical study from England. A modest decline of mental abilities such as reasoning and problem-solving was found in participants who were only in their forties.
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Gourmet Dining on a Slowing Metabolism
Today’s retirees have many more options how to spend their golden years than any generation before them. One of those late pursuits that is rapidly gaining in popularity is gourmet dining, both at home and at restaurants. Fine wining and dining has always been a prerogative of those who like (and can afford) the better things life has to offer, but today it’s a whole different ballgame. However, many food lovers also seem to think that eating at the best restaurants or cooking with the most expensive ingredients automatically means their diet is healthy. But this is not necessarily true.
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Treating Dry Skin from the Inside Out
One of the misgivings of winter is dry skin or xerosis, as it is known in medical terms. Having problems with dry skin can be quite uncomfortable. Your skin feels tight, even painful, and it looks unattractively red and flaky. It can maddeningly itch, making you want to scratch all day. There are probably close to 100 million Americans who go through the experience every year. Dry skin problems are usually easy to treat, but they can become more than a skin-deep health issue if you don’t pay attention.
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How Long Will You Live? A New Set of Assessment Tools May Be Able to Tell
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have come up with new assessment tools to determine the likelihood of death within a certain period of time. For this, they established a number of prognostic indices to predict the life expectancy in older and terminally ill patients. The main purpose of this project is to provide doctors, care givers as well as patients and their family members with information that can help prevent overtesting and overtreatment.
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In Praise of Play
Play is considered an important part of childhood – but only of childhood. Adults don’t play, not in the same way as children do. Play for the sake of playing loses its legitimacy quickly as we grow older. We find it harder to give ourselves permission to spend time on doing something that serves no particular purpose. Recreational activities, even favorite sports or hobbies, are not the same as playing.
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Feel Better, Live Longer
What really works to make sustainable changes in diet and lifestyle? It’s probably not what you think. In over 30 years of conducting clinical research, I’ve learned that the real keys are pleasure, joy and freedom, not willpower, deprivation and austerity. Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not. Why? Because life is to be enjoyed. There’s no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that’s even better, and quickly.
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Minding Our Brains
There has been enormous attention of late to the grim and genuinely frightening problem of Alzheimer’s disease. The problem is grim by its very nature. There is little we contemplate with greater dread than the loss of our minds. The problem is frightening at the personal level because we feel vulnerable to this increasingly common condition we don’t know how to cure, and at the collective level, where estimates suggest it could cost the nation a trillion dollars annually by 2050.
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The Right Food For Your Brain
Healthy eating is good for your body, but it also benefits your brain more than previously thought, according to a new study published in the “Archives of Neurology” that suggests the right kind of food may protect the brain against small blood vessel damage, thereby reducing the risks of stroke, memory loss and possibly Alzheimer’s disease.
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A Renewed Effort to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
The Obama administration has tasked the science community with finding some effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease by 2025. Experts consider the quest as ambitious. Still, health advocates applaud the government’s initiative, calling it an important step towards prevention, delay and, eventually, cure of the disorder.
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Herbs and Spices Pack More Than Flavor
When you think of herbal remedies, what comes to mind? Is it black cohosh, ginko biloba, or echinacea? Well, look no further than your spice rack for the healing powers of these unassuming flavor-enhancers. Packed with phytochemicals, these leaves, stems and seeds may ward off a wide range of illness, from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease.
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Lifelong Learning May Be the Best Defense Against Alzheimer’s
Exercising the brain as much as exercising the body to keep both fit and healthy has become the new mantra for the aging baby boomer generation. Scientists seem to agree. Studies show that people who were cognitively active throughout their lives are less likely to experience mental decline as they grow older.
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Widespread Chronic Sleep Deprivation Seen as a Cause for Concern
There are multiple causes for the so-called lifestyle-related diseases that plague us today. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension can mostly be blamed on poor nutrition, lack of exercise, stress and, as scientists increasingly find out, sleep deprivation. Over the last few decades, Americans have kept cutting back on their sleep as their lives have become busier. While a few generations ago people slept for eight hours or more, most Americans have to get by on six hours or less today.
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The Health Benefits of Loving and Being Loved
Love may not be all you need, but the difference between being in loving relationships and being without can have a significant impact on both body and mind, according to researchers in a relatively new scientific field, called “Interpersonal Neurobiology.”
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