Keeping one's brain active, trying not to become depressed and eating a diet rich in fruit and vegetables are the best ways to ward off developing dementia, a study of almost 1,500 volunteers has found.
If younger people were to follow such advice, millions worldwide could avoid or postpone the debilitating condition in old age, the research suggests.
The combined effects would far outstrip the theoretical possibility of eliminating a gene known to increase the chance of dementia, according to the study, published today in the British Medical Journal.
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Study Shows Three-Quarters of Parents of Autistic Children Stay Married
Parents of children with autism may be more likely to divorce when their children reach adolescence or young adulthood than parents of children without this or other developmental disabilities, finds a new study in the August issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.
Despite this increase in divorce seen as children with autism grew up, fully three-quarters of these parents did remain married, the new study showed.
"You are not fated to get divorced because you have a child with autism, but there is a prolonged vulnerability to divorce for these families," study researcher Sigan L. Hartley, PhD, a professor of human development and family studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison, tells WebMD.
Parents of children with autism may be more likely to divorce when their children reach adolescence or young adulthood than parents of children without this or other developmental disabilities, finds a new study in the August issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.
Despite this increase in divorce seen as children with autism grew up, fully three-quarters of these parents did remain married, the new study showed.
"You are not fated to get divorced because you have a child with autism, but there is a prolonged vulnerability to divorce for these families," study researcher Sigan L. Hartley, PhD, a professor of human development and family studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison, tells WebMD.
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Mysterious death ... Doug Nash with Silvia Fink, who died after a five-year romance aboard the yacht Windcastle, now riding out the cyclone season.
Mysterious death ... Doug Nash with Silvia Fink, who died after a five-year romance aboard the yacht Windcastle, now riding out the cyclone season.
Doug Nash and Silvia Fink met and fell in love on a yacht. After their 2007 marriage, the Windcastle took them to the still-warm lava of the Galapagos Islands, to Tonga, where they met the Pacific's last king, and on to New Zealand, surviving a ''pasting'' on the famously rough crossing.
''She was just crew but she ended up staying five years,'' Nash says. ''We had a tremendously successful romance and developed a great partnership. Our goal was a complete circumnavigation, but that came to a screeching halt in August.''
Their boat now floats on a mooring in Port Vila harbour, Vanuatu, riding out the cyclone season. By the time it sets sail again, at least nine months will have passed since it was the scene of 56-year-old Silvia's sudden and mysterious death. In the meantime, her widower waits, and waits.
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Genetically modified versions of canola plants, which are used in cooking oil and animal feed, have begun to grow beyond the fields in which they were planted. Scientists say it's common for seedlings to spread, but they don't fare well in the wild.
Genetically modified versions of canola plants, which are used in cooking oil and animal feed, have begun to grow beyond the fields in which they were planted. Scientists say it's common for seedlings to spread, but they don't fare well in the wild.
The results, presented Friday at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Pittsburgh, show that the vast majority of feral canola plants in the state contain artificial genes that make them resistant to herbicides. Researchers also found two plants that contained traits from multiple genetically modified varieties, suggesting that genetically modified plants are breeding in the wild.
"What we've demonstrated in this study is a large-scale escape of a genetically modified crop in the United States," says Cindy Sagers, an ecologist at the University of Arkansas, who led the study.
Few scientists believe that the canola plants pose an environmental risk, but the study highlights the ease with which some genetically modified plants can spread beyond their fields.
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Dr. Anthony Ladd, showing a cover story about trauma caused by the BP oil disaster.
Dr. Anthony Ladd, showing a cover story about trauma caused by the BP oil disaster.
"People are becoming more and more hopeless and feeling helpless," Dr. Arwen Podesta, a psychiatrist at Tulane University in New Orleans told Truthout. "They are feeling frantic and overwhelmed. This is worse than [Hurricane] Katrina. There is already more post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and more problems with domestic violence, threats of suicide and alcohol and drugs."
Dr. Podesta, who also works in addiction clinics and hospitals said, "It's a remarkably similar experience to that of the stressors of Katrina. There is an acute event, but then a long-term increase in hopelessness with every promise that is broken. Like a promise for money to rebuild a life, then people are put through red tape and each time they fail to move forward, they take five steps back in their psychological welfare."
"The total number of years this will affect us is unknown," Dr. Podesta said, adding, "however, it could affect us for possibly 20 to 30 years."
Happy pills: We spend millions every year on antidepressants but they don't work any better than placebos.
They are not much better than sugar pills, they have nasty side - effects, such as sexual dysfunction, and they increase young people's risk of suicide.
New research shows they don't even work on the brain in the way we thought they did.
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In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
Does this mean that you'd have to be an unreasonable person to think that a product named "vitaminwater," a product that has been heavily and aggressively marketed as a healthy beverage, actually had health benefits?
Consumers are continuing to increase spending on products for health and wellness - with a renewed focus on whole foods as a foundation, according to a new report from the Hartman Group.
"More than ever, consumers view fresh, real and clean food as the foundation for health and wellness," the market research organization reported.
"More than ever, consumers view fresh, real and clean food as the foundation for health and wellness," the market research organization reported.
"Consumers believe that a fresh, real and clean diet is the first step to treating and preventing disease, supporting vitality and mental energy."The organization carried out an online survey involving 2744 respondents to find out about US consumers' attitudes toward health and wellness, their sources of information, and triggers for changing behaviors. It found that the average household spends $148.48 a month - or 19 percent of all monthly spending - on categories that have a 'wellness halo'.
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"As rumors swirl that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may allow the sale of genetically modified (GM) salmon to consumers, flaws in the review process surrounding this controversial disruption to the natural food chain are coming into focus. The FDA, which has been tasked with overseeing the public's health, could approve the divisive science experiment as early as this fall - a decision that consumers strongly oppose. If approved, the salmon would represent the first genetically modified animal sold as food to unsuspecting consumers (currently, there are no labeling requirements in place to assist consumers in identifying and avoiding GM foods)."
"Unfortunately, many in the aquaculture industry seek to genetically engineer fish to speed up production of their product. In this case, the company lobbying the FDA for approval, AquaBounty Technologies, wants to combine salmon genes that control growth hormone with a gene from another fish, the ocean pout. The ocean pout gene would keep the growth hormone in production, effectively creating mutant salmon that grow at twice the normal rate."
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Could a special diet help to keep cancer in remission?
Could a special diet help to keep cancer in remission?
Last week I met Jane and she explained to me - in very unscientific terms - how it is that she has been cancer-free since 1992. At the time she discovered the last cancerous lump in her neck, colleagues in China - where she had worked - happened to send her an atlas detailing the different cancers found across that country. Looking at it, she realiszd that breast cancer (and prostate cancer) were virtually unknown throughout China at that time - one death in 100,000 women, as opposed to one in 10 in some western countries. Why should that be?
Comment: Don't worry Doug, you're not alone.
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