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Sometimes how to go about getting healthy seems confusing because there are so many conflicting messages. Are there general rules to follow which promote wellness? Actually there is, and to start off 2012 right I’m going to make a few suggestions:
1) Get an examination every year from your physician and dentist. They should tell you where you need to focus in order to get healthy and why. [Read more…] about HEALTHY LIVING FOR 2012
Cases of Alzheimer patients are starting to show up in the U.S. with people in their forties and fifties! How can that be? Isn’t that for people in their 70’s or older? Recent studies done by Dr. Nima Kivipelto and his colleagues from the University of Kuopio in Finland suggest that the long-term effects of stress may be the biggest cause of Alzheimer’s. It is believed that the stress hormone, cortisol, kills off brain cells when it enters the brain. Kivipelto’s research found that patients with both high blood pressure and high cortisol levels were more than three times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as patients without these symptoms. If you have either high cortisol levels or high blood pressure, your risk is twice as high. Researchers at the University of California- Irvine say that stress hormones can rapidly accelerate the formation of the brain lesions that cause Alzheimer’s. [Read more…] about Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
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The Buck Stops HERE!!!
(In lieu of my regular newsletter in which I provide the latest research and information regarding good health, I decided to address Healthcare Reform this month.)
The United States is ranked 48th in the world for life expectancy coming in behind countries like Japan, Australia, France, Canada, the U.K., etc. For the first time in history children being born in the U.S. will not have the same life expectancy as our generation! It will be shorter. Notice several of these countries practice socialized medicine. Japan is ranked 3rd in the world for longevity. While we espouse our country having the greatest healthcare providers, we are ranked so far behind how the Japanese are faring in real time health! How can that be? How can we have the latest in diagnostic equipment and excellent practitioners but still rank so poorly as a developed nation?
What is Japan doing differently? [Read more…] about From My Heart- September, 2009
