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In my job, I’ve helped a lot of people quit smoking. And I’ve heard a lot of reasons why smoking is a good thing. I’ve been told smoking sharpens your mind, relaxes you, calms you, keeps you from yelling at the kids (or spouse), tastes good with coffee, tastes better after a meal. In short, makes you feel “better”. (I always ask “better than ...
Sooner or later we end up with aging parents. And with that comes an entire array of problems we need to deal with. We’ll probably need to provide some type of assistance on a regular basis, whether we live nearby or not. It could be finding them a housekeeper, or making sure they get to doctor appointments on time. Frequently it gets to the point that much more than temporary and ...
Part of the problem in finding drugs which may be effective for dementia is that our ideas about what constitutes dementia have been undergoing radical change in recent years. It had been traditional to distinguish between Alzheimer’s dementia, or senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (SDAT) and multi-infarct dementia (MID), which is theoretically caused by small strokes which ...
Diabetes can creep up on us as we get older without us even realizing it. So it is important to know what the type 2 diabetes symptoms are, especially if you are in one of the risk groups for developing this disease. It may be hard to face the fact that you are entering, or in, middle age. Middle age on its own is only a small risk factor for developing diabetes but it is the time of ...
